Monthly Archives: August 2025

The Case For Markdown

Posted on 2025-08-23 by jcs

My old friend and ex colleague Watts Martin has weighed in on the Markdown issue. Martin is a technical writer and novelist who regularly uses Markdown in his work. Lately, he’s become a bit peevish about the periodic spasms of … Continue reading →

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Friesen’s Elevator Pitch

Posted on 2025-08-22 by jcs

Jeremy Friesen, who is hosting this month’s Emacs Carnival, has his own offering for the Elevator Pitch. As I said before [1, 2] the elevator pitch is particularly difficult because you have to make a persuasive case for Emacs in … Continue reading →

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Álvaro’s Elevator Pitch

Posted on 2025-08-21 by jcs

Álvaro Ramírez has weighed in on the Emacs Elevator Pitch challenge. Like Randy Ridenour’s response, Ramírez captures the spirit of the challenge perfectly. His answer is, to be sure, much longer than Ridenour’s but it’s easy to imagine it actually … Continue reading →

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Video Trimming In Emacs

Posted on 2025-08-20 by jcs

On Monday, Marcin Borkowski (Mbork) published a post on extracting a video clip from within Emacs. It seemed like a useful tool to have and I was going to write about it but Sacha mentioned it on Emacs News before … Continue reading →

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The James Bond Logo

Posted on 2025-08-19 by jcs

As a teenager, I loved the James Bond novels. I would buy them from the supermarket when they appeared and even drove to the library a couple of towns away to check out the ones I couldn’t find in the … Continue reading →

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Hey! I know. Let’s Make Another Boeing

Posted on 2025-08-18 by jcs

In an apparent attempt to prove that stupidity is a bipartisan trait, the current administration has decided to force Taiwan to acquire a 49% interest in Intel. The U.S. government thinks that the survival of Intel is essential to the … Continue reading →

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Revisiting Recent Files

Posted on 2025-08-17 by jcs

When you open a file, do you like Emacs to remember where you were when you last visited the file and return you to that place? I’m probably a minority but I find that behavior annoying. Of course, I can … Continue reading →

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The org-copy-visible Command

Posted on 2025-08-16 by jcs

This post is about a posting by Marcin Borkowski (mbork) from a couple of weeks ago that I’ve had sitting in a browser tab since then. Sacha already covered it so I wasn’t going to replow that ground but I … Continue reading →

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Emacs 30.2 Has Been Released

Posted on 2025-08-15 by jcs

Eli Zaretskii writes that Emacs 30.2 has been released and is ready for download. It’s a bug fix release but still worth installing. As usual, I built mine from source. I had a bit of difficulty downloading the tar and … Continue reading →

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What Is An Emacs Page?

Posted on 2025-08-14 by jcs

I’ve been reading Peter Provo’s’ book Emacs Writing Studio and one of the points he makes early on is that “word processing” is different from what it used to be. The traditional paradigm considers word processing from the point of … Continue reading →

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