Monthly Archives: April 2024

Porting From Obsidian To Org Mode

Posted on 2024-04-30 by jcs

Lately, I’ve seen a lot of posts asking how to move Obsidian files to Org mode. Even though this is Irreal, I won’t weigh in on why you might want to do that because I’ve never used Obsidian and don’t … Continue reading →

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Boeing And The Dark Age Of American Manufacturing

Posted on 2024-04-29 by jcs

Now it’s The Atlantic’s turn to feed my Boeing obsession. Unlike the other articles on Boeing that I’ve linked to, The Atlantic’s Boeing and the Dark Age of American Manufacturing looks at the early history of Boeing and what it … Continue reading →

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How To Write When You’re Not In Emacs

Posted on 2024-04-28 by jcs

Like me, Marcin Borkowski (mbork) hates writing text in anything but Emacs. Sadly, most of us can’t live in Emacs all the time so we sometimes find ourselves having to enter text in some other application. It always ends up … Continue reading →

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Numbering Lines In A Rectangle

Posted on 2024-04-27 by jcs

A few days ago, I wrote about how Evan Moses used a bit of Elisp to solve a user interface problem he was having. I liked his solution because it was simple and provided yet another example of how Emacs … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Why Use Tabs

Posted on 2024-04-26 by jcs

When I wasn’t paying attention, someone decided that what Emacs really needed was Tabs1. The next thing I knew, they were a feature of Emacs. To flog a tired meme, this brought to mind fish and bicycles. I just don’t … Continue reading →

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Staying With Emacs

Posted on 2024-04-25 by jcs

I’ve noticed that a lot of people treat their editor like a car. Some people like to have more than one and others feel like they should trade them in every couple years. I don’t understand either group but especially … Continue reading →

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Next Error Follow Mode

Posted on 2024-04-24 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has a nifty post that discusses a handy Emacs facility that I didn’t know about. A few weeks ago he wrote about follow mode. It was a good post that opened my eyes about the real utility … Continue reading →

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Alphabetical Lists In Org Mode

Posted on 2024-04-23 by jcs

The other day, I wrote that you never stop learning Emacs. There’s always something new to learn. I just saw a post that reminded me that—at least for me—you never stop relearning Emacs either. The post asked about why indentation … Continue reading →

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Emacs: Saving You From Yourself

Posted on 2024-04-22 by jcs

Another quickie today. Evan Moses has a short post that shows how he solved a problem particular to his workflow. He’s an Evil user, which means that when he wants to save a buffer he types :w. Unfortunately, he’s prone … Continue reading →

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Working With Docstrings

Posted on 2024-04-21 by jcs

Charles Choi has been writing a lot of Elisp lately and being a scrupulous developer, is careful to write informative and useful docstrings. Being conscientious, he’s careful to check the formatting of his docstrings by calling describe-function. That sounds simple … Continue reading →

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