Category Archives: General

LSP-mode Versus Eglot

Posted on 2025-08-07 by jcs

For reasons that I’ll explain below, this is not an informed post. Rather, I’m just passing along something that I found on the Web and that was merely one man’s opinion. Still, it seems like useful information so I’m repeating … Continue reading →

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Charles Choi Imagines Some New T-Shirts

Posted on 2025-08-06 by jcs

I wear T-shirts pretty much exclusively but I don’t have any Emacs T-shirts. The designs just don’t appeal to me. Charles Choi to the rescue. I really like the first two. Choi generated them with Gemini as a lark so … Continue reading →

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The Emacs Writing Experience: Ridenour

Posted on 2025-08-05 by jcs

This is another post about the Emacs Carnival on Writing. This time it concerns a contribution by Randy Ridenour, a Philosophy Professor at Oklahoma Baptist University. I especially like stories like his because he’s a non-technical user who nevertheless made … Continue reading →

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The Wages Of Complacency

Posted on 2025-08-04 by jcs

I tell you and tell you and tell you but you don’t listen. “Don’t entrust the only copy of your data to a third party”, I say. “But I’m a good guy and I’m not doing anything controversial. Besides, I’m … Continue reading →

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Org Workbench

Posted on 2025-08-03 by jcs

I’ve been fascinated with the Zettelkasten idea ever since i read Sönke Ahrens’ book How To Take Smart Notes. I just came across a new project by Yibie called org-workbench that marries the idea of a Zettelkasten card to all … Continue reading →

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There’s A New Carnival In Town

Posted on 2025-08-02 by jcs

After the really great July Emacs Carnival on the writing experience hosted by Greg Newman, Jeremy Friesen has stepped up to host the August carnival. This month the subject is “The Emacs Elevator Pitch”. The idea is that you have … Continue reading →

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Steve Jobs’ Cabinet

Posted on 2025-08-01 by jcs

Over at Perfect Days, Padraig has a post that really resonated with me. He begins by quoting Steve Jobs on cabinet making. Jobs says that a real craftsman wouldn’t use a piece of plywood on the back of a beautiful … Continue reading →

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More From Casual

Posted on 2025-07-31 by jcs

Charles Choi has announced some upgrades to his Casual Suite. He’s added two new interfaces along with the appropriate menus: Compile for compilation-mode and grep-mode Elisp for emacs-lisp-mode He also makes explicit the support for an Eshell interface that he … Continue reading →

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Emacs Carnival Writing Experience: Choi

Posted on 2025-07-30 by jcs

As you all know, I’m really enjoying Greg Newman’s Emacs Carnival: Writing Experience blog posts by various Emacs users who do their (non-code) writing with Emacs. I’ve commented on several of them and today I want to comment on another. … Continue reading →

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Eric Fraga’s Emacs Writing Carnival Entry

Posted on 2025-07-29 by jcs

I’ve been a long time fan of Eric Fraga’s quiet work in the Emacs sphere. He an academic who, as far as I know, doesn’t work directly on Emacs development but is nevertheless active in the community making suggestions and … Continue reading →

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