Monthly Archives: April 2023

Fixing Mu4e Forcing Opening In Full Frame

Posted on 2023-04-30 by jcs

A couple of weeks ago, I upgraded my mail client, Mu/Mu4e, to version 1.10.2 with Homebrew. It has some nice features but it also insisted on opening mu4e in full-frame mode, wiping out whatever window configuration I had. That was … Continue reading →

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Using Table Data in a Shell Code Block

Posted on 2023-04-29 by jcs

Just a quickie on a quickie from Grant Rettke. The quickie is an example from Rettke on how to import and use a table in an Org code block using shell. The secret is that the table entries get passed … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Gray on Gray

Posted on 2023-04-28 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, Lalelul wants to know How can I fix hard to read (gray text on gray background) dialog boxe? As soon as I saw it, I deleted the browser tab but I was too late. The … Continue reading →

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On Org Alternatives

Posted on 2023-04-27 by jcs

There’s a phenomenon that I both understand and don’t understand. That phenomenon is happy Emacs or Org users feeling the need to try out every alternative that comes their way. Notice I said “happy” users. If Emacs or Org isn’t … Continue reading →

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Screenshots and Recording

Posted on 2023-04-26 by jcs

Another day, another Álvaro Ramírez post. It’s hard to keep up. His latest post is macOS specific but very useful for those using a Mac who want to take a screen shot or capture a video. The Mac, of course, … Continue reading →

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Making Your Unix Command Names Unique

Posted on 2023-04-25 by jcs

I’ve been a Unix-head working exclusively in one flavor or another of Unix for more years than I care to contemplate. These days, I seldom see a Unix workflow tip that I didn’t already know about. Still, I do sometimes … Continue reading →

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Time Spent in Emacs

Posted on 2023-04-24 by jcs

Pavel Korytov is a fairly new Emacs user. He’s been at it for about two and half years but as seasoned Emacs users know, the learning never ends and even those of us with 15 or more years in are … Continue reading →

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Tech Journalists Are The Worst

Posted on 2023-04-23 by jcs

That headline is a cleaned up version of my original attempt. Irreal has a long history of documenting the silliness and failings of the Tech Press but even so I am always surprised at their cluelessness and dishonesty. If there’s … Continue reading →

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Shell Maker

Posted on 2023-04-22 by jcs

I’ve written a couple of posts about Álvaro Ramírez’s implementation of Emacs shells for ChatGPT and DALL-E. After he wrote those, he noticed that they shared a lot of code so, of course, he abstracted that code out into a … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Throw Away That Soap

Posted on 2023-04-21 by jcs

Another skirmish in the Vi(m) vs. Emacs wars. What do you do when you discover that your girlfriend uses Vim kitchen soap? If you’re an Emacser, the answer is clear: you tell her you have to throw it away. That’s … Continue reading →

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