Monthly Archives: January 2023

Writing Prose With (Doom) Emacs

Posted on 2023-01-21 by jcs

Over at (:doom discourse), Mediapathic has a very nice post on using (Doom) Emacs for prose writing. He’s a writer currently working on a book so he can offer firsthand experience. The unifying theme of his post is using the … Continue reading →

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Inbox Zero With Mu4e Bookmarks

Posted on 2023-01-20 by jcs

Years ago, I read and wrote about Ben Maughan’s excellent method of handling his email. It’s an inbox zero method that insists that for each message in your inbox you should Read and delete it, or Read and store it … Continue reading →

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Find Org Files

Posted on 2023-01-19 by jcs

Howard Abrams has a nifty idea. Open an Org file by its file name, title, or the tags it contains. If, like me, the majority of the files you deal with are Org files this make a lot of sense. … Continue reading →

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Cord and Cable Management

Posted on 2023-01-18 by jcs

One of the things I really admire but that also makes me feel guilty is people who have all their computer cables under control and mostly hidden from sight. Every time I see one of those videos by someone who … Continue reading →

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Why Use Emacs, Vim, and Other Nerdy Software

Posted on 2023-01-17 by jcs

Derek Taylor over at DistroTube has a video that asks the question, “Why should you use Emacs, Vim, and other nerdy software?” That’s not a hard question for Irreal readers but Taylor has an unusual perspective. Even though he constantly … Continue reading →

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Org-roam Workflow

Posted on 2023-01-16 by jcs

Dominik Honnef has a nifty post that describes his Org-roam based workflow for taking notes and writing articles. It’s a very thorough and complex system that captures notes, articles that he reads on the web, articles for his blog, and … Continue reading →

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A Nice Example of Using Bug-hunter from Sacha

Posted on 2023-01-15 by jcs

Sacha Chua has a great post on using bug-hunter. She had a problem in her large Emacs configuration file and used bug-hunter to find it. If you’re like me—and apparently Sacha—you won’t use it very often but when you’re trying … Continue reading →

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Sudo-edit

Posted on 2023-01-14 by jcs

Here’s a nifty bit of Elisp to make opening a file as root a bit easier: #Emacs Tip of the day: Opening a file as root (screenshot attached). If you `M-x uf/sudo-edit`, it will ask for a filename and open … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Life Of An Emacser

Posted on 2023-01-13 by jcs

As anyone who has ventured into the event horizon of their Emacs configuration knows, it can be extraordinarily difficult to get out. As the cartoon suggests, sometimes it can even suck up every available mental cycle leaving no time for … Continue reading →

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A Short Essay on Reproducible Research

Posted on 2023-01-12 by jcs

As everyone around here knows, I am a big fan of reproducible research and the idea of including data, code, and explanatory text in the same file. For researchers, that makes it easy for others to verify and extend the … Continue reading →

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