Monthly Archives: January 2018

Zamansky 40: Atomic Chrome

Posted on 2018-01-31 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has the latest video in his Using Emacs series up. This time it’s about using Emacs with Chrome via Atomic Chrome. Guys like Zamansky and me like to stay in Emacs as much as possible and—at least in … Continue reading →

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More Making Things Easier

Posted on 2018-01-30 by jcs

Responding to yesterday’s post, Sacha asks if I could post the code for jcs-insert-url for others to use. I thought I’d already done that but apparently not. That’s probably because except for the part identical to jcs-get-link, which I did … Continue reading →

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Making Things Easier

Posted on 2018-01-29 by jcs

A family member and I were having an argument a discussion about the relative ease of using a MacBook Pro with macOS and a Lenovo laptop with Linux. A lot of you guys are thinking, “Yeah, I’m with the Linux … Continue reading →

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Language/Editor Integration

Posted on 2018-01-28 by jcs

In yesterday’s post, I discussed Karl Voit’s love letter to Org mode and how he’s come to depend on it for personal information management. Articles about Org mode almost always make the point that Org documents are plain text and … Continue reading →

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Karl Voit on Org Mode

Posted on 2018-01-27 by jcs

Karl Voit has a lovely paean to Org mode in which he recounts his journey to Org in a years-long quest to organize his life and maintain a knowledge database. I’m sympathetic. I started with a Rolodex and a pocket … Continue reading →

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How Do I Exit Vi?

Posted on 2018-01-26 by jcs

As I’m sure all of you know, there’s a meme going around about people not being able to figure out how to exit Vi/Vim. I haven’t joined in the fun because, after all, exiting Emacs is just as obscure. Nevertheless, … Continue reading →

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Comparing Doom Emacs, Spacemacs, and Vanilla Emacs

Posted on 2018-01-25 by jcs

Yiming Chen has an interesting post that compares Doom Emacs, Spacemacs, and vanilla (i.e out-of-the-box GNU-) Emacs. Chen approaches the subject from the point of view of a Vim immigrant who is heavily invested in the Vim keystrokes and mindset. … Continue reading →

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Debugging Elfeed with DTrace

Posted on 2018-01-24 by jcs

If you don’t follow Chris Wellons over at nullprogram.com, you really should. Wellons always has interesting posts, and often discusses fascinating technical details. He’s shown me how to do things that I didn’t know Emacs could do like rendering fractals. … Continue reading →

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Agenda Alerts

Posted on 2018-01-23 by jcs

An exception to my all-things-in-Emacs rule is my calendar. I do keep an Org mode agenda for things like projects and tasks to be done but for doctor’s appointments and the like I use the the macOS calendar app—actually Fantastical … Continue reading →

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Emacs 26 Pretest #2

Posted on 2018-01-22 by jcs

Nicolas Petton has announced that Emacs pretest 26.0.91 is out and available for testing. It’s the second pretest for the upcoming Emacs 26.1. If you don’t mind living on the edge a little, give it a try and help out … Continue reading →