Monthly Archives: February 2023

The History of Emacs

Posted on 2023-02-18 by jcs

Over at Linux User Space, Leo and Dan have a short video giving a reasonably comprehensive history of Emacs: Would you look at that! Another text editor #history hitting @tilvids today. This time, it’s #Emacs. Oh, you didn’t know #TECO … Continue reading →

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Org Mode For Project Breakdown and Estimation

Posted on 2023-02-17 by jcs

Over at In a stream of Random Thoughts .. there’s an interesting post on using Emacs and Org mode for breaking down and estimating projects. The idea is that each new project is given an Org file that breaks down … Continue reading →

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Is VS Code The Spiritual Successor To Emacs?

Posted on 2023-02-16 by jcs

Vivek Haldar is a Python fan and considers Guido von Rossum “one of the best language designers of our time.” He was surprised, therefore, when von Rossum suggested in a Lex Fridman podcast that VS Code was the spiritual successor … Continue reading →

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Xcape on macOS (Sort Of)

Posted on 2023-02-15 by jcs

Yesterday I wrote about T V Raman’s post explaining how he uses the X Windows xcape command to provide extra keys and better ergonomics for Emacs. Raman has some nice ideas about improving the Emacs keyboard interface but they were, … Continue reading →

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Better Ergonomics Under X

Posted on 2023-02-14 by jcs

T V Raman has a post that may be interesting to those of you who run Emacs under X. That’s probably just about everybody who isn’t using a Mac so many of you may be interested. The TL;DR is that … Continue reading →

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Tempo Templates

Posted on 2023-02-13 by jcs

Nicolas Martyanoff has a post on something I didn’t know about: Emacs Tempo templates. I’ve been an Emacs user for somewhere between 15 and 20 years and I’d never heard of Tempp templates. On the one hand that’s pretty surprising. … Continue reading →

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Emacs Comes to Android

Posted on 2023-02-12 by jcs

Here’s some good news: The F-Droid site now has a more or less complete implementation of GNU Emacs for the Android platform. I’m not sure Emacs on a phone is all that useful other than for dealing with Org files … Continue reading →

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Clocking and Status Changes

Posted on 2023-02-11 by jcs

Just a quickie today courtesy of Mario Jason Braganza. Like most developers, Braganza is lazy in that good way that makes us search out ways to automate mundane tasks. Sometimes the automation doesn’t save much—or even any—time; it’s the principal … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: A Close Call

Posted on 2023-02-10 by jcs

I’ve never understood the allure of Twitter. It is, without doubt, a toxic environment1 and while it may, according to whom you ask, have become more benign under Musk it’s still not, by and large, a place sensible people want … Continue reading →

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Finding The Link To An Org Attach File

Posted on 2023-02-09 by jcs

Matus Goljer (Fuco1), whose work I’ve written about many times before, has an interesting post on his use of org-attach. The point of the post is a way of automating the finding of the Org headline that points to an … Continue reading →

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