Monthly Archives: August 2020

Emacs 27.1 Has Been Released

Posted on 2020-08-11 by jcs

That was speedy. After only two weeks since the release of the Emacs-27.1-RC1, the final 27.1 is available. I’m happy to say that this post is being written with it and I haven’t experienced any problems at all. There’s a … Continue reading →

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Troubleshooting Mu4e Update

Posted on 2020-08-10 by jcs

Recently, I wrote about my adventures in troubleshooting Mu4e. This is an update on what I discovered and what I did to resolve the problem. The chances are good that this won’t be of interest to anyone but I’m writing … Continue reading →

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A Proposal to Ban Adtech

Posted on 2020-08-09 by jcs

A really great article by Gilad Edelman in Wired asks Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising? The article is from March but I somehow missed it and it’s definitely worth writing about. Even without going into any details at … Continue reading →

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The Frame Patch

Posted on 2020-08-08 by jcs

As I mentioned yesterday in my post about the just announced Emacs 27.1-RC2, Álvaro Ramírez left a comment to my post A Shortcut Manager for My Emacs-centric Workstation. In that post, I said that I was using yequake to pop … Continue reading →

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Emacs 27.1-RC2

Posted on 2020-08-07 by jcs

The Emacs 27.1 train keeps rolling along with the announcement of the second release candidate. I’ve been using 27.1-RC1 and haven’t encountered any problems so I wasn’t going to bother with RC2 but Álvaro Ramírez just explained to me how … Continue reading →

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Rolling Your Own Emacs Modal Mode

Posted on 2020-08-06 by jcs

Lukas Lazarek has a very interesting post that details how he implemented his own evil-like mode for Emacs. Lazarek begins by describing the difference between Emacs and Vim. His distinction is much like mine: Vim wants to be a lightweight, … Continue reading →

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Zettelkasten Explained and Demoed

Posted on 2020-08-05 by jcs

Continuing with yesterday’s theme about Zettelkastens, today I’d like to point you at two videos that explain and demonstrate the idea. The first, ZETTELKASTEN METHOD (Explained Clearly with Examples and Software), by Mike and Matty, two brothers who are physicians … Continue reading →

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Zettelkasten Goes Mainstream

Posted on 2020-08-04 by jcs

Until March of this year, I had never heard the term “Zettelkasten” or anything about the concept to which it applies. I first came across the idea in a post by Tiago Forte, which pointed me to Sönke Ahrens’ book, … Continue reading →

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A Short Tutorial on ERT

Posted on 2020-08-03 by jcs

Abrochard has an excellent short tutorial on using ERT for running regression tests on your Elisp code. Most of us, of course, don’t write enough Elisp to worry about regression tests but if you want to contribute to Emacs or … Continue reading →

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Troubleshooting Mu4e

Posted on 2020-08-02 by jcs

After I upgraded to macOS Catalina—or perhaps after I replaced my laptop because of the spilled drink catastrophe—I’ve been having problems with mu/mu4e. That’s serious for me because they are my primary email client. There are two problems. First, mds … Continue reading →

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