Category Archives: General

I Am Not Worthy

Posted on 2017-12-27 by jcs

I used to feel pretty snug when I got up to around 100 open buffers in Emacs. Not anymore: Closing down an #emacs with 510 open buffers. I think that doubles my last record. @EmacsRocks @EmacsReddit — Mike Schaeffer (@mschaef_ectw) … Continue reading →

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Org 9.1.5

Posted on 2017-12-26 by jcs

Over the holidays, Bastien Guerry announced a new Org mode version: 9.1.5: #emacs #orgmode 9.1.5, a bugfix release, is out. Merry chrismas and happy hacking! — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) December 24, 2017 Another nice Christmas gift from the folks in … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 39: mbsync and mu4e

Posted on 2017-12-25 by jcs

Speaking of Christmas gifts, Mike Zamansky has just posted the latest video in his Using Emacs series. This time he talks about setting up mbsync and mu4e to handle his email. I went through that same exercise and can testify … Continue reading →

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OrgMode Tutorial Episode 7, Snippet 5

Posted on 2017-12-24 by jcs

It’s Christmas Eve and Rainer König has just landed his sleigh on the roof of the Irreal International Headquarters with a gift. After a long absence, he’s back with another episode of his OrgMode Tutorial video series. This time he … Continue reading →

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Steve Purcell

Posted on 2017-12-23 by jcs

Like most Emacs users, I depend on Melpa to install my packages and keep them up to date. I have a couple of packages from the other repositories but the majority of them come from Melpa. It’s easy to get … Continue reading →

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flet, cl-flet and Dynamic/Lexical Binding

Posted on 2017-12-21 by jcs

This is a post for Elisp programmers who have some Common Lisp (CL) experience. One nice feature of CL is the flet macro that lets you temporarily bind a function lexically. Emacs Lisp also has a flet in the cl … Continue reading →

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Git-undo

Posted on 2017-12-20 by jcs

John Wiegley has released a nice package that can be really helpful if your workflow involves tracking and saving your work with Git. Sometimes you do some work and then decide that you don’t want that change and would like … Continue reading →

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PSA: Importing the OS X Path into Emacs

Posted on 2017-12-19 by jcs

I’ve probably written about this before but this tweet suggests that not all Mac Emacs users are aware of it: I have been using #emacs on OSX for the last 10yrs, but never stumbled upon exec-path-from-shell before. Wow! https://t.co/CxIOfhR0dh — … Continue reading →

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Exporting DOCX/ODT Documents With a Style Sheet

Posted on 2017-12-18 by jcs

Karl Voit has a really handy tip for those of you unfortunate enough to have to deal with Word (or its evil siblings) documents. Many folks in that cohort make do writing in Org mode and exporting to ODT. If … Continue reading →

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More Calc Recipes

Posted on 2017-12-17 by jcs

Yesterday’s post on calc generated an interesting discussion in the comments. Frequent commentor Phil offers a particularly nice example of an easy way to add up a row or column of numbers. That’s something that while it doesn’t come up … Continue reading →

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