Monthly Archives: October 2023

Zamansky: Learning Elisp #12

Posted on 2023-10-31 by jcs

Mike Zamansky just published the latest video in his Learning Elisp series. This is the second video is his project to insert emojis into a buffer by replacing keywords with the corresponding emoji. In his previous post, Zamansky showed how … Continue reading →

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An Occur Video

Posted on 2023-10-30 by jcs

Occur is, I think, an underappreciated command. At first glance, it seems sort of like grep except it works on buffers rather than files. You give it a regular expression and it opens a new buffer that lists the matches. … Continue reading →

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Vimari

Posted on 2023-10-29 by jcs

Back in August, I wrote about my quest to minimize mouse usage as much as possible. That’s easy in Emacs where my mouse usage is essentially zero. It’s a bit harder when navigating between apps and performing various system duties … Continue reading →

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Customizing Emacs Menus

Posted on 2023-10-28 by jcs

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m not a big fan of Emacs menus. That’s mostly because I’m much faster if I can stick to the keyboard and, of course, my general desire to avoid the mouse when I can. Still, I … Continue reading →

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Open Xcode From Emacs At The Same Line

Posted on 2023-10-27 by jcs

Álvaro Ramírez has a nice post on opening a file in the macOS Xcode editor from Emacs. There’s nothing unusual about that, of course, but Ramírez’s wrinkle is that he wants Xcode to open at the same line the Emacs … Continue reading →

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Elisp Links

Posted on 2023-10-26 by jcs

In order to be a really proficient Emacs user, you’re going to have to learn at least a little bit of Elisp. As I’ve said before, Elisp is at once both easy and hard to learn. Like all Lisps, there’s … Continue reading →

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Crafted Emacs v2

Posted on 2023-10-25 by jcs

Michael Ashley wrote to tell me that System Crafters has released version 2 of their Crafted Emacs configuration. Irreal readers will be familiar with System Crafters from David Wilson’s System Crafters video series that I’ve written about many times. It … Continue reading →

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Customizing Emacs Journal

Posted on 2023-10-24 by jcs

Rob Streeting has a very interesting post on building the ideal Emacs journal. He was an Org-roam user but discovered that he never seemed to add links to the data he needed later. He began building the ideal journaling system … Continue reading →

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Exploratory Data Analysis With AWK

Posted on 2023-10-23 by jcs

This post is about Brian Kernighan and AWK, two things always worth hearing about. All of you, I’m sure, know that after retiring from Bell Labs, Kernighan took a professorship at his Alma Mater, Princeton. Since he’s been there, Kernighan … Continue reading →

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PlantUML and Org-mode

Posted on 2023-10-22 by jcs

AbstProcDo, like me, is a terrible artist. Sometimes, though, we need to add a diagram to our documentation, report, or Blog post. I usually use Graphviz or, when I’m in Troff mode, Pic for this. But these aren’t the only … Continue reading →

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