Category Archives: General

Knut Magnus Aasrud has an interesting post on OPML. If you haven’t heard of OPML before (I hadn’t) it stands for Outline Processor Markup Language and is a file format for outliner applications. It’s fairly general but has found particular … Continue reading →

Just a quickie today. I came across this reddit post about cl-callf. It was something I had never heard of. One of the Lisp idioms is to toggle a boolean with (setq bool (not bool)) I use it all the … Continue reading →

Mike Zamansky is using some of his newfound free time to learn more about AI. He’s going through Andrew Ng’s Coursera ML class, which requires working in Python. Zamansky used to do a lot of Python but has recently switched … Continue reading →

I’ve written about Denote before but those posts were usually about advanced features that Prot, the author of Denote, was working on. If you don’t know anything about Denote, those other posts may not have meant a lot to you. … Continue reading →

A month ago, I wrote about James Dyer’s experiment with marking the active window. His original idea was to make the fringe of the active window a different color so that it stood out and was easy to discern from … Continue reading →

Over at the Emacs subreddit, jackn3 noticed that a lot of experienced Emacs user describe Emacs as a program that’s fun to use and he wondered if the other redditers felt the same and if so why. The responses to … Continue reading →

Emacs Elements has posted another useful short video. This time it’s about an easy way to use ediff. The first thing he mentions is that you can mark two files in dired and they will be used as the default … Continue reading →

Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) has a new heroic video. Heroic because it undertakes to describe the mechanism for controlling the placement of buffers. That is, where in the display environment should a buffer be displayed. That mechanism is complex so describing … Continue reading →

Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) has posted a nifty video on abbrev-mode. It turns out that there’s a lot more to it than you might have thought. Prot says that you can think of it as a lightweight alternative for yasnippet or … Continue reading →