Monthly Archives: September 2023

Zamansky: Learning Elisp #10

Posted on 2023-09-20 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has popped in with another Learning Elisp video before he departs on his vacation. He didn’t want to start the next project and leave it hanging while he was away so this video covers some preliminaries. In particular, … Continue reading →

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Emacs Writing Studio

Posted on 2023-09-19 by jcs

As many of you know, I’m very interested in the use of Emacs for non-technical purposes. In particular, I interested in how prose writers and researchers in disciplines other than Computer Science and its close siblings use Emacs for their … Continue reading →

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Mediating Remote Work Decisions With Gut Feelings

Posted on 2023-09-18 by jcs

As most of you know to your sorrow, I have an obsession with certain non-computer subjects. The origins of COVID and remote work are two examples. Oddly, those two subjects have collided recently. With the end of COVID lockdowns, many … Continue reading →

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Fixing The Emacs/Gnupg Problem

Posted on 2023-09-17 by jcs

For some time there’s been a problem between Gnupg 2.4.1 and Emacs. Although you can decrypt files with Emacs—your .authinfo.gpg file for example—you couldn’t edit and save an encrypted file: Emacs hangs. This turns out to be a mismatch between … Continue reading →

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Emacs Bookmarks

Posted on 2023-09-16 by jcs

Charles Choi has a new post that considers Emacs bookmarks. His idea is to make Emacs bookmarks as similar as possible to browser bookmarks. That makes sense and, I’m sure, works for lots of folks but I’ve gone in a … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Avoid Evil Mode

Posted on 2023-09-15 by jcs

AltcoinShill has a silly but provocative post on why you should not use Evil mode. The TL;DR is that the default Emacs keybinding are essentially a pinky finger muscle building exercise and that the reason those keybindings were chosen was … Continue reading →

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Proportional Fonts For Writing Prose

Posted on 2023-09-14 by jcs

Around a month ago, I wrote about Charles Choi’s post on Tuning Emacs to Write Prose in Org and Markdown. One of his suggestions was to use proportional fonts when you’re writing prose. He claimed it’s easier to read and … Continue reading →

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Emacs Bedrock

Posted on 2023-09-13 by jcs

I’ve never been a fan of Emacs starter packages. That’s probably because when I started, there weren’t any: you simply rolled your own configuration using whatever resources you could find. Still, there’s something to be said for a minimal configuration … Continue reading →

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Automatic Newlines

Posted on 2023-09-12 by jcs

Just a quickie today. Emacs Elements has a YouTube short in which he offers an Emacs tip on adding newlines to the bottom of a buffer. The idea is that you can configure Emacs so that when you type Ctrl+n … Continue reading →

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Mastering Emacs Book Review

Posted on 2023-09-11 by jcs

Over at LWN.net, Jake Edge has a book review of Mickey Peterson’s excellent Mastering Emacs. Edge is a long time Emacs user who never got around to really mastering the editor. Through a long process starting with a fascination with … Continue reading →

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