Monthly Archives: March 2025

Relative Line Numbers (Again)

I’ve written before about relative line numbers. The idea is to label the current line as 0 and the other lines as positive or negative offsets from it. It’s handy if you want to quickly move to another line. As … Continue reading

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Cuckoo Search

The other day, in response to my The Power Of Elfeed post, RenĂ© Trappel wrote to me offline about his Elfeed package that enables content search. He calls his package “Cuckoo Search” for reasons you can discover at his Github … Continue reading

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The Power Of Isearch

For a very long time I’ve been using swiper-isearch in place of the default isearch because I like the way it lists the results in the minibuffer, lets you scroll through them, and pick the result you want On the … Continue reading

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Emacs for creative non-techies who want get off Google Docs

As you all know, I’m fascinated by non-technical people who use Emacs. You probably also know that I have profound dislike of Google and especially their Docs suite, which brings together everything we hate about Word with surveillance and censorship. … Continue reading

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EWP

Lars Ingebrigtsen has an interesting post on his EWP his package for publishing blog posts to WordPress. I’m a long term Org2blog user and really like it but, sadly, my host provider, that I’ve been with for many years, no … Continue reading

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From Neovim to Emacs

I’ve written many times how I was a Vi/Vim user for many, many years. I think that I’m just now coming up to the point that I have more time with Emacs than I did with Vi/Vim. Most of my … Continue reading

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Journelly Update

A few days ago I wrote about my need for something better than the Apple Notes app for my memo book. I’ve been using Notes for 10 years and it works well but I’d like something that takes care of … Continue reading

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Casual Make

Charles Choi is back with another app in his causal suite. This time it’s about making it easier to work with the Make utility. For reasons that I don’t understand, lots of people hate make and complain, in particular, about … Continue reading

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Romany Gilmour, RIP

After my latest annual happy birthday wishes to Pink Floyd’s iconic Dark Side of the Moon, MarkB sent along a link to David Gilmour and his daughter Romany singing Wish You Were Here at an impromptu appearance at an open … Continue reading

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Journelly

Because I’m the way I am, I keep fairly detailed records of my day. My system is loosely based on the NYPD memo books in which officers record every event they respond to as well as other useful data. I … Continue reading

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