Monthly Archives: July 2026

🥩 Red Meat Friday: The Scourge Of Dickovers

Posted on 2026-07-31 by jcs

Over at Pluralistic, Cory Doctorow has a righteous diatribe about dickovers. If you’re not familiar with the term, dickover was coined by John Gruber to describe those super annoying popups that cover the text you’re trying to read. They’re bad … Continue reading →

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Turning Two Spaces Into A New Sentence

Posted on 2026-07-30 by jcs

In the Apple ecosphere—especially in iOS—a convenient short cut is to type two spaces to end the current sentence and start a new one. Specifically, two spaces will delete the spaces, insert a period and a space, and capitalize the … Continue reading →

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Folding In Non-Org Buffers

Posted on 2026-07-29 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) really likes being able to cycle folding in Org buffers. Of course, then he wanted to be able to do the same thing in any buffer. In particular, he wanted to be able to fold and unfold … Continue reading →

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A Quick EWW Hack

Posted on 2026-07-28 by jcs

I’ve been writing a bit lately about my growing use of EWW [1, 2, 3, 4]. I was always a little skeptical of those who said they made significant use of EWW for their browsing but then I realized that … Continue reading →

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Embark For CIDER & Projectile

Posted on 2026-07-27 by jcs

Bozhidar Batsov, who’s been writing about Embark lately has a nice post on integrating CIDER and Projectile into Embark. I don’t use either of them so you might wonder why I care. The answer is that Batsov’s post is a … Continue reading →

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Copy Link At Point In EWW

Posted on 2026-07-26 by jcs

Raymond Zeitler over at Ray on Emacs has a nice post on copying the link at point in EWW. It’s sort of hidden so that’s the reason for his post and this one. He decided to write his own because … Continue reading →

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A Couple Of Tips For Emacs on macOS

Posted on 2026-07-25 by jcs

Over at The Art Of Not Asking Why, JTR has begun a series on his Emacs configuration. This post covers his special arrangements for macOS. There are two tips, in particular, that seem to come up all the time. The … Continue reading →

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Emacs 31.0.91 (pretest 2) Is Available

Posted on 2026-07-24 by jcs

Sean Whitton writes to say that Emacs 31.0.91, the second Emacs 31 pretest, is now available. If you’re interested in trying it out, you can get a copy from https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-31.0.91.tar.xz. It’s signed so you should also get the signature file … Continue reading →

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Making A Window Dedicated

Posted on 2026-07-23 by jcs

Bozhidar Batsov has been a writing a very nice series of posts on recent Emacs additions that are worth knowing. His latest is on making a window dedicated. A dedicated window is one that is locked to its current buffer. … Continue reading →

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Aligning Mode Line Elements

Posted on 2026-07-22 by jcs

Mode lines. Everybody complains about them and a few brave souls—like Prot—have even taken the time and effort to do something about them. The problem is that they’re so tricky to configure that it’s not worthwhile so we just suffer … Continue reading →

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