Monthly Archives: May 2025

Emacs Window Navigation

There’s been a spate of posts lately about navigating among windows in Emacs and The Emacs Cat decided to jump in with a description of their own procedures. I like those procedures because they are essentially the same as mine. … Continue reading

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Journelly 1.1

After the official release of Journelly 1.0, Álvaro Ramírez has not been sitting on his laurels. He has a long list of feature requests from his beta testers and new users and has already released Journelly 1.1 that implements many … Continue reading

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A Bespoke Emacs Keyboard In Software

In response to my post on the best emacs keyboards, Paul Jorgensen has a very interesting post of how he leverages software to turn the standard Apple keyboards into Emacs specific keyboards and make them better suited to his needs … Continue reading

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Emacs 30.2 Pretest 1

Eli Zaretskii has announced that the first pretest for Emacs 30.2 is now available for testing. That’s great news. It’s nice to see that development is proceeding apace with the planned bug releases between the—more or less—yearly major releases. As … Continue reading

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An Org Mode Capture Template For Journelly

One of the killer features of Journelly for many of us is that Journelly’s data is stored as Org Mode markup and that this data is easily synced to the iCloud so that it can be shared among all your … Continue reading

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Checking For A Leap Year

Wait! What? I’ve been programming most of my life and have a PhD in Mathematics but I’ve never seen this before. It’s about checking for a leap year. The first thing we all learn is that it’s a leap year … Continue reading

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A Garbage Collection Strategy

One of the strengths—or weaknesses, depending on your point of view—of Lisp is garbage collection. That means that memory no longer in use is automatically collected and made available to the system without depending on the programmer to release it … Continue reading

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Unsetting Keybindings

Back before I became an Emacser, a friend who was an Emacser said that I shouldn’t worry about the Emacs keybindings because I could configure them to be whatever I want. I remember thinking that that would be disaster. After … Continue reading

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The Best Emacs Keyboards

Over at the Emacs subreddit, surveypoodle asks a perennial question: what are the best keyboards for Emacs? He points out that Emacs pinky seems to have appeared rather late in the editor’s history and speculates that that’s because the keyboards … Continue reading

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F1 Pit Stops And Pediatic Heart Surgeons

Synergy. It’s an amazing thing. We usually view it a narrow context: synergy among members of a development team, for example but here’s a story about synergy between two very diverse groups. The first group is a team performing pediatric … Continue reading

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