Monthly Archives: July 2020

Red Meat Friday: Offered Without Comment

Posted on 2020-07-31 by jcs

Lol. This is too funny. #linux #vim > #emacs > #nano #programming #editors pic.twitter.com/hIcM96F0GG — pwnaday (@pwnaday) July 31, 2020

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Emacs 27.1-RC1

Posted on 2020-07-30 by jcs

Emacs 27 is entering the home stretch. Nicolas Petton has pushed a commit bumping the version number from 27.0.91 to 27.1 and prepared tar and zip files for RC1. If you can, download it and try it out. The testing … Continue reading →

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Super-links

Posted on 2020-07-29 by jcs

This looks promising. Karl Voit has a post about org-super-links and their use in implementing a sort of poor man’s Zettelkasten. Super-links is still very preliminary but the idea is to provide an automatic way of implementing back links, something … Continue reading →

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An Emacs/Org-mode Setup for Writing

Posted on 2020-07-28 by jcs

Bhalla Kunal over at expLog has an interesting post on his writing setup. It’s Emacs and Org-mode based but, interestingly, he says that the thing that helped his workflow the most was rotating his monitor so that he had more … Continue reading →

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The Right Dictionary and How to Get It

Posted on 2020-07-27 by jcs

Yesterday, I saw a tweet in which someone referred to Marcin Borkowski’s 2017 post on using the Webster 1923 dictionary in Emacs. Why would you want to do that? The answer to that is given in James Somers’ 2014 post, … Continue reading →

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Strong Opinions Loosely Held

Posted on 2020-07-26 by jcs

The other day in this Daring Fireball post about the demise of the Apple G4 Cube, Gruber describes Steve Jobs as having “strong opinions loosely held.” He says it was one of Job’s truly extraordinary powers. It’s hard to argue … Continue reading →

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A Paper-Like Emacs Writing Configuration

Posted on 2020-07-25 by jcs

Manuel Uberti enjoys writing his journal entries with pen and paper. Lots of people do although I’m not one of them. The fact, as I’m sure I’ve mentioned before, that I have terrible handwriting no doubt has something to do … Continue reading →

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The Withering of Office Space

Posted on 2020-07-24 by jcs

As we’re learning, COVID-19 is causing profound changes in the way we live and causing us to question many long-held assumptions about how things work, indeed, how they must work. I’ve written about some of those things previously. Today’s example … Continue reading →

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Quit Processes on Exit from Emacs

Posted on 2020-07-23 by jcs

Yesterday, I wrote about fixing a small annoyance on my MacBook. Here’s a quickie from Bozhidar Batsov that fixes another small annoyance. This time the annoyance is with Emacs, although as Batsov explains, it’s particularly annoying on macOS. The problem … Continue reading →

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Inserting Newlines in the Mac’s Messages App

Posted on 2020-07-22 by jcs

On the heels of yesterday’s semi-Mac-specific post, here’s one that’s entirely Mac specific. If you’re a Linux or Windows user, there won’t be anything very interesting for you in this offering. John Gruber over at Daring Fireball, provoked by a … Continue reading →

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