Monthly Archives: January 2026

Saving The Elfeed Database

Posted on 2026-01-21 by jcs

I’ve written before that one of things I love about Elfeed is that it keeps a database of all your feed entries. That makes it easy to find earlier content if you need to revisit or reference it for some … Continue reading →

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TMR Video

Posted on 2026-01-20 by jcs

Despite what I wrote last time about tmr, I’ve come to realize that deep down I’m a timer nerd. As my family will tell you, I can be anal about following directions precisely. If the recipe says to beat the … Continue reading →

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The Success of Markdown

Posted on 2026-01-19 by jcs

Anil Dash has a long post on How Markdown Took Over The World. We Org mode users may have a few problems with that depiction but it is fair to say that Markdown usage has become ubiquitous. We see it … Continue reading →

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Regulating Your Writing Workflow With Emacs

Posted on 2026-01-18 by jcs

A few days ago, Chris Maiorana wrote an article, The 10-Commit Rule: how git version control can improve writing quality, about how he uses Git and Emacs to regulate his writing workflow. The idea is to track how many changes … Continue reading →

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Bending Emacs 10: Agent Shell

Posted on 2026-01-17 by jcs

Álvaro Ramírez has a new Bending Emacs video up. This time it’s about his agent-shell app that serves as uniform Emacs interface to LLM agents supporting the Agent Client Protocol (ACP). I’m not interested in LLM technology so you almost … Continue reading →

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Multiple Editing Instances Of A Single File

Posted on 2026-01-16 by jcs

Emacs has a couple of builtin ways of dealing with separate windows that are looking at the same file. The default method is to simply “open” the file again in a separate window. In this case you have two views … Continue reading →

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Making Agenda Items Into Appointments

Posted on 2026-01-15 by jcs

Every Org mode user knows that you can add tasks to your Org agenda with a SCHEDULED or DEADLINE keyword. That will cause your agenda to warn you ahead of time of upcoming tasks requiring your attention. Emacs also has … Continue reading →

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Unix V4 Source Commentary

Posted on 2026-01-14 by jcs

I’ve written a couple of times about the recent discovery of the only known Unix v4 tape. The v4 release, which was generally considered lost, is important because it is the first Unix that was written in C and therefore … Continue reading →

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Unfill

Posted on 2026-01-13 by jcs

I saw this post from mbork on paragraph filling. It’s a nice post and I’ll probably write about it later but today I want write about something else he mentioned in his post: unfill.el. It’s from Steve Purcell and has … Continue reading →

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The Emacs OS: The Unix Way Vs. The Emacs Way

Posted on 2026-01-12 by jcs

Chris Maiorana has decided to take the old joke about Emacs being an operating seriously. Or at least at face value. He has planned a series of posts where he compares the Unix way of doing things to the Emacs … Continue reading →

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