Monthly Archives: August 2020

Zamansky 74: Eglot

Posted on 2020-08-31 by jcs

Mike Zamansky is back with another video in his Using Emacs Series. It’s worth noting that this is number 74. That’s a huge corpus of first rate videos serving the Emacs community. If you’re in NYC and run across Zamansky, … Continue reading →

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Tracking Exercise with Org-mode

Posted on 2020-08-30 by jcs

Polaris64 has a very interesting post about using org-mode to track his expercising. That doesn’t sound particularly interesting, I know, but read on to find out why I find it worth mentioning. If I wanted to track my exercising, the … Continue reading →

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Hyperbole

Posted on 2020-08-29 by jcs

A while ago, Bob Weiner asked me to take a look at Hyperbole and maybe write a post about it. It’s been in my queue to do that ever since but Hyperbole is a large and complex system and every … Continue reading →

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Amazon & Antitrust

Posted on 2020-08-28 by jcs

A surprising number of people hate Amazon. I say “surprising” because I don’t understand their animus. Sure, they send us a huge amount of what amounts to spam, have an unfriendly attitude towards organized labor—at least as concerns their own … Continue reading →

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From SMS to an Org TODO

Posted on 2020-08-27 by jcs

Many Org-mode users are looking for a way to add notes and TODOs when they aren’t at their computers. Most folks use one of the smart phone apps such as beorg or orgzly or perhaps even organice. Kevin Cunningham has … Continue reading →

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Another Thesaurus for Emacs

Posted on 2020-08-26 by jcs

It’s really handy to have a thesaurus handy when you’re writing, and of course if you’re writing in Emacs, you want to have that thesaurus available and easily accessible from Emacs. I’ve been using power thesaurus and its Emacs interface, … Continue reading →

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The Costs of Mobile Data

Posted on 2020-08-25 by jcs

I just came across some information that’s not actionable and therefore doesn’t really matter but it is interesting. Cable.co.uk has a fascinating page that describes the cost of mobile data in 228 countries. For each country, they show the cheapest, … Continue reading →

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Using Multiple Dictionaries for Spellchecking in Emacs

Posted on 2020-08-24 by jcs

Alain M. Lafon has an interesting post on spellchecking in Emacs. Lafon is Swiss and therefore has to deal with four official languages as well as German and English in his day-to-day life. The Swiss with their usual efficiency handle … Continue reading →

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Gccemacs on Linux

Posted on 2020-08-23 by jcs

Just a quickie today. Those of you who read yesterday’s post but are running on Linux might find this Reddit post by catsol_v2 on compiling gccemacs on Linux useful. It’s not quite as detailed as Ramírez’s post but has enough … Continue reading →

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Native Emacs Compilation on macOS

Posted on 2020-08-22 by jcs

If you’re like me, you’re probably excited about native compilation coming to Emacs. In case you don’t know, the project, gccemacs (started and headed by Andrea Corallo), brings native compilation to Elisp. That means that not just will Elisp code—and … Continue reading →

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