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Monthly Archives: December 2019
Emacs for Writers
Jacob Moena has a long post on using Emacs for creative writing. He begins by explaining why anyone would want to do such a thing. Of course, Emacsers already know the answer: Emacs will make you more productive, especially if … Continue reading
Easing the Use of Strong Passwords on a WiFi Router
François Marier has a cute trick to make using long and secure passwords on your WiFi router a little less painful. Setting a, say, 64 random character password isn’t too much trouble if you’re the only one using the router … Continue reading
Remote Work Will Become the New Normal
The forward march of remote work continues apace. Despite setbacks like Marissa Mayer of Yahoo! putting an end to their remote work program, researchers continue to gather evidence that remote work is a win for both employers and employees. Over … Continue reading
Query Replace with Occur
Over at (with-Emacs, Clemens Radermacher has posted a short tutorial on using occur and query-replace across several files. It’s sort of a riff on abo-abo’s post on refactoring multiple files. To a first order approximation, the idea is to use … Continue reading
Org Mode 9.3.1
Batien writes that he’s released Org 9.3.1. It’s a bug fix so you should probably update if you’re having any problems with Org 9.3. I updated yesterday and haven’t had any problems. Of course, that’s a study of \(n=1\) so … Continue reading
Implementing Palindrome Predicates
Joe Marshall is a long-time Lisper with an ability to come up with really elegant solutions. Indeed, the second ever Irreal post was about Marshall’s brilliant solution to a problem from SICP. Recently, he recounted a story about a recent … Continue reading
Emacs Screencasts
Over at Meta Redux, Bozhidar Batsov, who will need no introduction to Emacs users, has a nice post on how to make a screencast from within Emacs. The result is actually an animated GIF but the results in his demo … Continue reading
Emacs 27 Release Branch
Eli Zaretskii writes on the Emacs Development list that he’s created the Emacs 27 release branch. Next up is the Emacs 27.1 pretest, which he hopes to release soon. He’s also set the version number of Emacs on the Master … Continue reading
Plain Text For the Social Sciences
Regular readers know that I’m fascinated by the ways that non-technical folks make use of Emacs. Despite our prejudiced assumptions, they are often sophisticated and subtle in the ways they leverage Emacs. Recently, Eric Fraga tweeted a pointer to a … Continue reading
John Wiegley on Emacs 27
In another of the videos from Emacs Conference 2019, John Wiegley talks about what’s coming in Emacs 27. Wiegley is still the official maintainer but Eli Zaretskii stepped up to do the heavy lifting when Wiegley’s job intervened. Wiegley says … Continue reading