Monthly Archives: June 2025

Running All Code Blocks In An Org Subtree

If you’ve been around the Emacs technical community for a while, you know that Sacha Chua—despite being the mother of a young daughter—is an ever present and incredibly productive member of that community. One of the ways she manages that … Continue reading

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Markdown Comes To Journelly

I’m sure you’ve all missed my Journelly posts. The thing is, it’s working so well for me that I don’t feel the need to comment about every little change but Álvaro Ramírez has just announced Markdown support. That’s nothing that … Continue reading

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Emacs For Writers Handbook

Chris Maiorana has just announced the release of his Emacs for Writers handbook. It’s a 22 page handbook for the writer who would like to escape the confines of “word processors” like Word and its ilk. The handbook doesn’t assume … Continue reading

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Advice To A New Emacs User

Over at the Emacs subreddit, Informal-Silver-2810 says he’s been a Vim/NeoVim user for the last 20 years but decided to try Emacs so he committed himself to a month of using only Emacs. As part of that experiment, he asked … Continue reading

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Becoming An Emacs Power User

Over at the Emacs subreddit, Cultural_Mechanic_92 asks How did you become an Emacs power user? It is, I suppose, a reasonable question even if the answer is pretty obvious. The comments are interesting but basically boil down to “you’ll learn … Continue reading

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Reddit And HN Readers

Over at the Emacs subreddit, iLemming has an interesting video that explores two packages by thanhvg for reading reddit and Hacker News from within Emacs. The two packages are emacs-reddigg and emacs-hnreader. Both packages give you a nice Org buffer … Continue reading

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“Modern” Keybindings In Emacs

Just in case you haven’t heard enough whining about Emacs not having “modern” keybindings, arthurno1 over at the Emacs subreddit has a long post on possible ways to reconfigure Emacs to get them. It’s an interesting post because arthurno1 actually … Continue reading

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Visual Icons

Some folks like to see a visual indicator of the file type in file listings. In Emacs, this usually means in the Dired listings. Probably the best known way of doing this is the all-the-icons-dired package. It has a set … Continue reading

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Is Emacs An Operating System?

The joke about Emacs being an operating system is an old one but lately the idea seems to be being taken more seriously. Here’s the latest example. Significantly, the poster, Bi-Jean, is a self-confessed n00b who doesn’t work in the … Continue reading

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The Mechanics Of Interacting With Journelly On The Mac

As you all know by now, I’m all in on Journelly. I use it to implement my memo book in which I record virtually everything that happens in my day. For me, one of its major benefits is that it … Continue reading

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