Monthly Archives: May 2023

Diffing With Emacs and Vim

Franco Pasut has an instructive post on how to diff files with Vim and Emacs. Both editors have very nice built-in functions to make diffing files easy. I’ve used them both and can attest to their utility. Pasut’s post, Notes … Continue reading

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Converting an Excel Spreadsheet to an Org Table

I no longer use spreadsheets and haven’t for a long time. I don’t think there are any spreadsheet instances on any of my computers and if there are, they are relics from the mists of time. Any spreadsheet operations that … Continue reading

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Local Abbreviations

Abbreviations are a useful Emacs feature. They can do anything from inserting a non-ASCII character to changing “latex” into “LaTeX”. If you do a lot of writing they can be a significant timesaver. If you do any coding, you’re probably … Continue reading

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Completing Org Links

Jeremy Friesen has an interesting post that may teach you a couple of things you didn’t know. Friesen uses Org mode a lot in his writing and everything he writes and has lots of links—both standard and customized—in that writing. … Continue reading

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Moving To Elfeed

Michał Sapka has an interesting post that serves as a nice coda to yesterday’s post on Emacs integrating so many productivity tools. One of those tools is the RSS feed reader, Chris Wellons’ Elfeed. Sapka’s post is about his moving … Continue reading

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Emacs Integration

Over at the Emacs subreddit, FortunateDaughter_ notes that the Emacs “editor” has all sorts of other productivity tools, such as email, built in and wonders why this is, what was the philosophy behind it, and whether users benefit from it … Continue reading

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Captee

Charles Choi has an application, Captee, in the Mac App store that’s a generalization of my jcs-get-link function. My function inserts an Org link to the currently active page in Safari. I use it constantly when writing blog posts. It … Continue reading

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Microsoft Reverts To Type

Younger Irreal readers whose memories don’t extent beyond the start of the century may be puzzled by my occasional disparaging of Microsoft. After all, they’ve made a point, lately, of reciting all the appropriate open source mantras and cultivating a … Continue reading

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Some Navigation Functions

I’ve written before about Aimé Bertrand and his Emacs configuration. In particular, I was impressed with the many specialized functions he had to do various UI tweaks. Bertrand is back with another post. This one discusses some of his navigation … Continue reading

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An Apostate Comes Home

Over at the Emacs subreddit, g_tb has come back to Emacs after trying Neovim, Kate, Helix, and VSCode. None of them met his needs as well as Emacs so he’s back to the one true editor™. Of them all, VSCode … Continue reading

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