Monthly Archives: May 2023

The Emacs Help System

Posted on 2023-05-31 by jcs

Over at the Emacs Elements Channel there’s another useful video up. This time it’s about the Emacs Help system. The majority of experienced Emacs users will already be familiar with most of the material but if you’re a learn-as-you-go user, … Continue reading →

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PSA: Elisp Has Builtin Threading Macros

Posted on 2023-05-30 by jcs

I’ve written about Clojure’s threading macros and their implementation in Elisp before [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. I like them but almost always use the traditional composition of functions instead. That’s probably because being a mathematician it seems natural to … Continue reading →

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Elfeed-webkit Update

Posted on 2023-05-29 by jcs

The other day I wrote about installing elfeed-webkit to render my RSS feed as proper HTML. I was pretty impressed with it when I first tried it and now I’m even more of a fan. Before elfeed-webkit, I spent a … Continue reading →

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Org Blk URI

Posted on 2023-05-28 by jcs

Just a quickie. I stumbled across a post from Andrea that describes his package Org Blk URI. It’s pretty simple: it’s just a way of extracting the content at a URL into an Org source block. That’s handy for capturing … Continue reading →

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PDF at 30

Posted on 2023-05-27 by jcs

PDF. It’s a ubiquitous standard that seems like it’s always been here. How else would you prepare a document that could be printed on virtually any printer or displayed on any screen in the best possible resolution? But, it turns … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Latex vs. Word

Posted on 2023-05-26 by jcs

The minions hate Word even more than they hate dark themes so they insisted I run with this: when a mathematician says they prefer writing with word over latex pic.twitter.com/YJTVoln0iJ — Anthony Bonato (@Anthony_Bonato) May 19, 2023 Like last week’s … Continue reading →

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Elfeed-webkit

Posted on 2023-05-25 by jcs

I just stumbled across a post by Fritz Grabo about his package elfeed-webkit. When I first saw it, I thought it was interesting and worth a look. After reading more about it, I knew I had to install it. That … Continue reading →

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Emacs Badges

Posted on 2023-05-24 by jcs

As far as I know, it started with this reddit post. It was a request for a “built with Emacs” badge. Those badges were the type of thing you used to see on Web sites. I’m pretty sure I had … Continue reading →

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Emacs Elements on Emacs Regular Expressions

Posted on 2023-05-23 by jcs

Over at Emacs Elements there’s a nice video that explores Emacs regular expressions. One the one hand, virtually everyone hates Emacs regular expressions and wishes that Emacs used Perl compatible regexes instead. On the other hand, a case can be … Continue reading →

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The Story of Mel

Posted on 2023-05-22 by jcs

There’s a charming piece of foundation lore that every programmer in my cohort read and admired: The Story of Mel. Even when I was writing assembly language exclusively, the story was about a bygone era and techniques that no one … Continue reading →

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