Monthly Archives: November 2021

Git History for Selected Text

Posted on 2021-11-20 by jcs

Here’s a nice tip for finding all the commits related to some selected text in Magit: In #magit of #emacs, M-x magit-log-buffer-file with a region selected, this will show the region related commits only. https://t.co/bnWwhrGKUw #git — Jumpei KAWAMI (@junkw) … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Take That, Neovim

Posted on 2021-11-19 by jcs

PSA: Any title that starts with “Neo” is either superfluous or misleading. — Kontra (@counternotions) November 12, 2021

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Bozhidar Batsov Revists “Why Emacs”

Posted on 2021-11-18 by jcs

Ten years ago, Bozhidar Batsov wrote a post entitled Why Emacs. It was a short essay on why he used Emacs, what was good about it, and what its shortcomings were. Ten years later, Batsov, like most of us, is … Continue reading →

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Rant: Medicare Advantage Ads

Posted on 2021-11-17 by jcs

This is a U.S.-centric post that probably won’t make a lot of sense to non-American readers. It does give me a new appreciation of the National Healthcare programs that many overseas readers have, though. You know those Medicare Advantage ads … Continue reading →

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Plain Org

Posted on 2021-11-16 by jcs

For us Emacers, one of the longstanding shortcomings of iOS and, to a lesser extent, the Android ecosystem is the lack of an Emacs app. There are several Org-mode centered apps that allow you to perform various Org functions on … Continue reading →

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Hacking y-or-n-p

Posted on 2021-11-15 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has a short post on how to make y-or-n-p return t when the user types Return. Check his post for the details but the TL;DR is that he temporarily extends the y-or-n-p keymap to have Return return … Continue reading →

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Editing macOS Text Fields with Emacs

Posted on 2021-11-14 by jcs

If you’re like me, you hate dealing with text outside of Emacs. Even those of us who spend as much time as we can inside Emacs have to interact with other applications. In my case, that’s mostly Safari. The problem … Continue reading →

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Search Hydra

Posted on 2021-11-13 by jcs

If you use the Ivy/Swiper/Counsel package, you know that are a lot of ways to do searches. So many that it can hard to remember what they all are and how to invoke them. Fortunately, Yuri Tricys has come to … Continue reading →

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Read Meat Friday: Chrome Is Not Your Friend Either

Posted on 2021-11-12 by jcs

A few months ago, I noted that Google is not your friend. You’d think everyone would know this by now but apparently lots of folks don’t. As a corollary to that truism, we also have, “Chrome is not your friend … Continue reading →

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Three N00b Emacs Mistakes

Posted on 2021-11-11 by jcs

Derek Taylor has a video that calls out what he says are Three HUGE Mistakes New Emacs Users Make. He says that many Emacs n00bs have a hard time getting started because they make the same three basic mistakes. The … Continue reading →

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