Monthly Archives: April 2025

Another Happy Journelly User

Posted on 2025-04-10 by jcs

As you all know by now, I’ve become a huge Journelly fan. Its author, Álvaro Ramírez, thinks of it as Twitter for your private use. That’s a reasonable description given its user interface but it doesn’t begin to capture its … Continue reading →

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Twenty Years Of Git

Posted on 2025-04-09 by jcs

Wait. What? Git is 20 years old? How can that be? I’m sure it was just yesterday that Linus announced the Git project after his arrangement with Larry McVoy’s BitKeeper imploded. That’s a sad story in itself but this post … Continue reading →

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Emacs Startup Time

Posted on 2025-04-08 by jcs

Bozhidar Batsov has a post that claims something I’ve often said: Emacs startup time doesn’t matter. No one is saying that your editor taking 30 seconds to start is acceptable but by and large the people you see worrying about … Continue reading →

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Setq Versus Setopt

Posted on 2025-04-07 by jcs

Like most people, I use setq to set user options in my Emacs configuration. It’s the canonical way of setting a variable in just about any Lisp. But, as Bozhidar Batsov says, it’s not always the best way of setting … Continue reading →

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TestFlight

Posted on 2025-04-06 by jcs

I know you will all think I’m indulging my inner Apple Fan Boyzism but I want to say a few words in praise of an Apple app. As you likely know by now, I am involved in a beta test … Continue reading →

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New Window Commands For Emacs 31

Posted on 2025-04-05 by jcs

Being a basically boring guy, I almost always have a full screen frame with two side-by-side windows for Emacs. For some functions—Magit and Elfeed are examples—I temporarily pop up a single full frame window but the previous window configuration is … Continue reading →

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Initial Thoughts On Journelly

Posted on 2025-04-04 by jcs

Yesterday, I explained why I think Journelly will be useful to me. Today, I want to follow up with my initial impressions of the app. As I wrote before, I recently signed up for the Journelly beta and have been … Continue reading →

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Why I’m Interested In Journelly

Posted on 2025-04-03 by jcs

Over at The Art Of Not Asking Why, JTR suspects that I may be an apostate, or at least that I’m inconsistent. He notes, correctly, that I’m all in on Emacs in general and Org mode in particular, and yet … Continue reading →

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Use GNU Emacs : The Plain Text Computing Environment

Posted on 2025-04-02 by jcs

I just came across a link to this recently updated book on the plain text computing environment. It was, apparently, first written to describe Emacs 19.29 around 1997. That was a long time ago and Emacs has evolved considerably since … Continue reading →

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Emacs Redux On Flyspell

Posted on 2025-04-01 by jcs

Here’s yet another post commenting on something that Bozhidar Batsov wrote on Emacs Redux. I like to write about his posts because they typically look at some Emacs functionality that we all thought we knew about and tells us things … Continue reading →

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