Category Archives: General

AI And Em Dashes

Posted on 2025-04-16 by jcs

My old colleague and friend Watts Martin has an interesting and amusing post on em dashes and their indication of AI generated text. As many of you know, Irreal is an em dash friendly site [1, 2, 3, 4] and … Continue reading →

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Scrim Beta

Posted on 2025-04-15 by jcs

Charles Choi, someone whom Irreal often writes about, has a new app and is looking for beta testers. His app, scrim, is a way of making the org-protocol available to macOS users. The problem is that org-protocol depends on the … Continue reading →

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Emacs And Lisp

Posted on 2025-04-14 by jcs

Joe Marsahll has been blogging up a storm lately. One of his latest posts is a sort of personal history of Emacs and its relationship to Lisp. When Marshall started as an undergraduate, he was using the line oriented editor … Continue reading →

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Prot On Elisp

Posted on 2025-04-13 by jcs

If you follow the various Emacs forums, you’ll see a lot a whining about how hard Elisp is to learn and how things would be so much better if only the extension language were something rational like Python, Ruby, or … Continue reading →

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Configuring Journelly

Posted on 2025-04-11 by jcs

After my post Initial Thoughts On Journelly, in which I recounted how I’m using Álvaro Ramírez’s Journelly app, Bren Smith asked me to share my configuration for sharing files between my iOS devices and my Mac. If you’re an Emacs … Continue reading →

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Another Happy Journelly User

Posted on 2025-04-10 by jcs

As you all know by now, I’ve become a huge Journelly fan. Its author, Álvaro Ramírez, thinks of it as Twitter for your private use. That’s a reasonable description given its user interface but it doesn’t begin to capture its … Continue reading →

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Emacs Startup Time

Posted on 2025-04-08 by jcs

Bozhidar Batsov has a post that claims something I’ve often said: Emacs startup time doesn’t matter. No one is saying that your editor taking 30 seconds to start is acceptable but by and large the people you see worrying about … Continue reading →

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Setq Versus Setopt

Posted on 2025-04-07 by jcs

Like most people, I use setq to set user options in my Emacs configuration. It’s the canonical way of setting a variable in just about any Lisp. But, as Bozhidar Batsov says, it’s not always the best way of setting … Continue reading →

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TestFlight

Posted on 2025-04-06 by jcs

I know you will all think I’m indulging my inner Apple Fan Boyzism but I want to say a few words in praise of an Apple app. As you likely know by now, I am involved in a beta test … Continue reading →

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New Window Commands For Emacs 31

Posted on 2025-04-05 by jcs

Being a basically boring guy, I almost always have a full screen frame with two side-by-side windows for Emacs. For some functions—Magit and Elfeed are examples—I temporarily pop up a single full frame window but the previous window configuration is … Continue reading →

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