Monthly Archives: July 2024

On The Origin Of Emacs

Posted on 2024-07-31 by jcs

There’s a long simmering debate among hardcore Emacsistas about who what did what in the initial development of Emacs. Most of us know that Emacs began as a curated set of editing macros for the TECO editor. At the MIT … Continue reading →

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Casual Bookmarks

Posted on 2024-07-30 by jcs

It’s getting harder and harder to keep up with Charles Choi and his casual-suite. He’s announced yet another app in the suite. This time it’s for bookmarks. Like the other apps in the collection, casual-bookmarks captures all the hard to … Continue reading →

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Prot On Use-package

Posted on 2024-07-29 by jcs

Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) has an excellent video on the fundamentals of the use-package macro. If you’re new to Emacs or are one of the few Emacs users who isn’t constantly tweaking your init.el, use-package is a macro you use in … Continue reading →

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Apple and RCS

Posted on 2024-07-28 by jcs

I don’t always agree with John Gruber but he’s dead on with his recent post about RCS. If you have even occasionally visited this galaxy, you will be aware of the ongoing battle between Google and Apple concerning the RCS … Continue reading →

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A Vimmer Comes To Emacs

Posted on 2024-07-27 by jcs

Nathan Dawit Chane has an interesting post on his journey from Vim to Emacs. I can relate to it because his journey is eerily similar to mine. Like him, I spent many years as a Vim user and could be … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Minimal Configs

Posted on 2024-07-26 by jcs

This Irreal post on dependencies and this one on Emacs bloat discussed the idea that many Emacs users have too many packages and other capabilities enabled in their Emacs configuration files. I’ve never worried about that because, really, there’s no … Continue reading →

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Dedicated Windows

Posted on 2024-07-25 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has a very interesting post on something I didn’t know about: dedicated windows. The TL;DR is that dedicated windows are restricted—more or less—to the single buffer that they were displaying when they were set to dedicated. Mbork’s … Continue reading →

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A (Too) Short Interview With Brian Kernighan

Posted on 2024-07-24 by jcs

As you all know, I’m a big fan of Brian Kernighan. He’s not only the co-author of the iconic K&R book on C but also wrote a lot of of the Unix utilities that we all depend on today. Not … Continue reading →

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Mastering Emacs (Emacs 29 Edition)

Posted on 2024-07-23 by jcs

I just got a notice from Mickey that the latest version of Mastering Emacs is out. It is, when you think about it, a modern miracle. You buy a really great book on Emacs once and keep getting the new … Continue reading →

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Ready Player Mode On MELPA

Posted on 2024-07-22 by jcs

A couple of week ago I wrote about Álvaro Ramírez’s ready player mode. The idea is to be able to take a quick peek at a media file from within Emacs. At the time, the app was still beta quality … Continue reading →

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