Monthly Archives: August 2020

Red Meat Friday: WTF

Posted on 2020-08-21 by jcs

Richard Stallman. Sometimes it’s hard to know what to think. On the one hand, he can be extraordinarily irritating and he holds all sorts of opinions that I and many people don’t agree with. On the other hand, no matter … Continue reading →

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How To Increase Your Typing Speed

Posted on 2020-08-20 by jcs

If you’re a developer, Steve Yegge has some advice: learn to type. Yegge’s posts are always amusing and instructive so if you haven’t already seen his rant on developers who don’t touch type, be sure to take a look. But, … Continue reading →

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Mickey on Emacs 27.1

Posted on 2020-08-19 by jcs

The other day, I wrote about Bozhidar Batsov’s TL;DR take on the Emacs 27.1 NEWS file. Batsov’s post hit the highlights but if you want to know everything that’s new, you have to go over the NEWS file itself. Happily, … Continue reading →

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Running Messaging Apps from Emacs

Posted on 2020-08-18 by jcs

Alain Lafon, who, as I’ve said before, is an Emacs master, has a very interesting post on Emacs and messaging apps such as Skype and Slack and many others. One of the major problems with them from his point of … Continue reading →

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Video: Emacs Tools for Writers

Posted on 2020-08-17 by jcs

Derek Taylor has a nice video that talks about Emacs tools for writers. It’s a nice recapitulation of a post by Scott Nesbitt that I wrote about back in May of 2018. Taylor discusses pretty much the same tools as … Continue reading →

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Bozhidar Batsov on Emacs 27.1

Posted on 2020-08-16 by jcs

For those of you who find NEWS files a little bit TL;DR, Bozhidar Batsov has a nice post that discusses the highlights of the Emacs 27.1 release. It’s a good way to see what’s new and important in the release. … Continue reading →

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Steve Yegge on Emacs and Google

Posted on 2020-08-15 by jcs

It’s not Friday but Steve Yegge offers us some juicy red meat with a splendid rant on Google’s constant deprecation of their APIs. His main thesis is that backward compatibility is the hallmark of successful software systems that last for … Continue reading →

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RMF: Emacs and Vim Are Not Line Editors

Posted on 2020-08-14 by jcs

Ed is a line editor. QED is a line editor. Even Edlin is a line editor. Vim and Emacs are not: they’re visual or full-screen editors. This Red Meat Friday offering may not exercise most of you but I find … Continue reading →

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Screenshots in Emacs on macOS

Posted on 2020-08-13 by jcs

Diego Zamboni has a post that describes how to add a screenshot to an Org buffer. The post considers the problem from the point of view of macOS but is easily adapted to other operating systems. He uses the org-download … Continue reading →

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PDFs and the Web

Posted on 2020-08-12 by jcs

The Nielsen Norman Group has an interesting article on PDFs and the Web and why they should never be read online. The article says that the group first reported this conclusion 20 years ago and nothing that’s happened in the … Continue reading →

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