Monthly Archives: September 2018

Update on the Mojave/Emacs Problem

Posted on 2018-09-30 by jcs

This is an update on my post concerning the Emacs GUI not working on the macOS Majave update. There’s lots of useful information in the comments to that post so you should read those if you’re a Mac Emacs user … Continue reading →

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File and Directory Variables

Posted on 2018-09-29 by jcs

I must admit that I seldom use file local variables. Mostly that’s because I have a standard default configuration for each file type but it’s also because I can never remember the exact format. That’s just silly, of course, because … Continue reading →

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Emacscast #5

Posted on 2018-09-28 by jcs

Rakhim Davletkaliyev has posted the fifth episode of his excellent Emacs podcast, Emacscast. This time he talks mostly about blogging with Hugo but, as usual, he starts with a description of the changes he’s made to his configuration since the … Continue reading →

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Dedicated Frames

Posted on 2018-09-27 by jcs

Over on the Emacs subreddit, freetonik has an interesting tip for Emacs users. The idea is to have several frames each dedicated to a particular function. It made me think of Xah Lee because he likes to work (mostly) with … Continue reading →

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PSA: GUI Emacs Broken on Mojave

Posted on 2018-09-26 by jcs

As all the Apple faithful know by now, Apple released the latest version of macOS on Monday. I was literally minutes away from starting the upgrade when I stumbled upon a tweet that indicated a problem with Emacs and Mojave: … Continue reading →

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Using Multiple-Cursors to Kill Multiple Processes

Posted on 2018-09-25 by jcs

I came across this tip on reddit the other day. It’s probably not something you’ll use every day but it can come in handy when you have a lot of processes in your list-processes output and want to kill a … Continue reading →

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Another “How Did I Not Know This?”

Posted on 2018-09-24 by jcs

I’ve been using Emacs for over a decade and like all of us, I’m still learning things I didn’t know about it. Still, this really surprised me. Sure, maybe I don’t know about some obscure command or key binding but … Continue reading →

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Recording Your Org Mode Activity

Posted on 2018-09-23 by jcs

Over at Infin there’s a nice post on recording Org mode activity. What that means is logging all the little administrative steps you take with your agenda such as marking an item done, changing its state, adding a note, and … Continue reading →

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Clean Screen Writing

Posted on 2018-09-22 by jcs

There’s a certain type of writer—mostly prose writers, I’d guess, but others too—who don’t want to be distracted by extraneous information from their editor. They don’t want to see the name of the file they’re editing, what line they’re on, … Continue reading →

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A Tiny Change to Irreal

Posted on 2018-09-21 by jcs

Those of you who are super-observant may have noticed that I’ve removed the “Recent Comments” widget from the site’s sidebar. That’s because the widget doesn’t work with Disqus and was displaying “recent” comments from some time ago. A while back, … Continue reading →

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