Monthly Archives: June 2018

Xah Lee on Abbrev Mode

Posted on 2018-06-20 by jcs

Xah Lee has a nice video on abbrev mode that shows you a couple of ways to use the facility. Abbrev-mode is built in so you don’t have to install any packages: you can just start using it. Lee covers … Continue reading →

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Internationalization of Text Strings with Emacs

Posted on 2018-06-19 by jcs

I’ve had this topic in my blog queue for a couple of weeks but I noticed literally scores of tweets pointing to the post in question. That was enough to make me forego my own post on the subject but … Continue reading →

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How The Teletype Works

Posted on 2018-06-18 by jcs

If you’re like me and enjoy seeing how the mechanical marvels—like the Mergenthaler Linotype typesetter—that were used before computers took over everything worked, you many enjoy this film on how the teletype operates. It’s from 1940 and considers the mechanics … Continue reading →

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Line Numbers in Emacs 26.1

Posted on 2018-06-17 by jcs

As you’ve probably heard, Emacs 26.1 has replaced the old linum-mode with a faster and less cluttered implementation. I almost never need or want line numbers so they’re normally turned off but for the occasional times when they’re useful, I … Continue reading →

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The Macalope Takes Down Tech Addiction

Posted on 2018-06-16 by jcs

I keep writing about the silliness known as “tech addiction.” I can’t help myself but I’m not going to seek help. I’m not going to seek help because somehow has to call BS on this nonsense. Now the Macalope comes … Continue reading →

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We Have Always Been at War with Spam

Posted on 2018-06-15 by jcs

Via Wilfed Hughes we have: 1864: The first record of electronic spam involved a telegram sent by a dentist in London. One of the recipients was so infuriated by this poppycock that he composed a letter to the editor of … Continue reading →

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Mu4e-conversation

Posted on 2018-06-14 by jcs

As I’ve said before, I’m not a fan of threading in emails. That’s mainly because it’s not that useful for the type of emails I deal with but I’m aware that most people have different workflows and probably do like … Continue reading →

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Configuring Wanderlust

Posted on 2018-06-13 by jcs

It was a great day for me when I finally got mu4e working and moved my email into Emacs. Emacsers who want to live in Emacs as much as possible will sooner or later look for a way of handling … Continue reading →

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A Complete Computing Environment

Posted on 2018-06-12 by jcs

Irreal oldtimers know that I consider Emacs a sort of light-weight Lisp Machine and that I can sometimes be—ahem—obsessive about it. Recently, I came across a series of posts that reveal me to be a mere tyro in exploiting Emacs … Continue reading →

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Format$

Posted on 2018-06-11 by jcs

The other day, I wrote about John Kitchin’s experiment with bringing f-strings to Elisp. In the comments, Noonian Atall pointed to Alphapapa’s format$ macro that does the same sort of thing. I just saw a reddit post from alphapappa announcing … Continue reading →

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