Monthly Archives: April 2019

Git and Plain Text for Writers

Posted on 2019-04-10 by jcs

Bastien tweets a pointer to an interesting article on using Git for writing: Interesting read on using #git for #writers : https://t.co/1qQe481zK7 … Not just via the @AtomEditor but also GNU #emacs, as explored here https://t.co/4qNCIyP5LU and discussed here https://t.co/d3alOHxudI … Continue reading →

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Screen Real Estate

Posted on 2019-04-09 by jcs

A month ago, Mike Zamansky posted that he’d just replaced his two 27 inch monitors with a new 43 inch 4K monitor. I commented that every time I saw a post like his, I had an urge to run out … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 57: Dired Subtree and Narrow

Posted on 2019-04-08 by jcs

Mike Zamansky’s been busy dealing with admissions for next year’s Freshmen and other professorial duties but he has found time to give us a new video in his Using Emacs Series. This one is about using dired-subtree and dired-narrow, two … Continue reading →

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Swiper-isearch

Posted on 2019-04-07 by jcs

Abo-abo has added a new function to the swiper suite that fixes a couple of problems with swiper. The new function, swiper-isearch, acts more like isearch. The first thing you’ll notice is that multiple matches on a single line are … Continue reading →

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The Magic of a Write-Enabled Dired

Posted on 2019-04-06 by jcs

Here’s a great tip from learn emacs on how to change a group of file names: Need to change alot of file names in a directory at once? Dired to the rescue! M-x dired C-x C-q (to toggle dired buffer/dir … Continue reading →

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When You Should Use Gotos

Posted on 2019-04-05 by jcs

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Vivek Haldar’s discussion of Dijkstra’s famous paper on why you shouldn’t use gotos in higher order languages. Dijkstra’s admonition has become received wisdom these days to the point of becoming a shibboleth … Continue reading →

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Dvorak and QWERTY

Posted on 2019-04-04 by jcs

It’s probably just my innate grumpiness and contrariness but I’ve never bought into the Dvorak hype. Adherents of the Dvorak layout will tell you that it’s much more logical and will make you a faster typist. I’ve never been convinced … Continue reading →

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Org Mode 9.2.3 Has Been Released

Posted on 2019-04-03 by jcs

Bastien writes that Org-mode 9.2.3 is out: #emacs #orgmode 9.2.3, a bugfix release, is out. Enjoy ! https://t.co/dK4uSFUjXb — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) April 2, 2019 It’s a bug fix release so if you’re having any issues with Org you should … Continue reading →

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Understanding the Emacs Font System

Posted on 2019-04-02 by jcs

I’ve always felt a little bad that I have a hard time understanding how to work with Emacs fonts. Even simple things like setting the default font seems harder than it should be. It turns out that it’s not (just) … Continue reading →

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OrgMode Tutorial Plans

Posted on 2019-04-01 by jcs

Rainer König is back, after 15 months, with news of some changes in his life and his plans for his video series. In the latest video, König explains that he’ll be changing jobs soon and is also considering starting his … Continue reading →

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