Tag Archives: Emacs

Another Hugo Blogging Workflow

Posted on 2022-10-26 by jcs

Andrey Listopadov has (yet another) post on blogging with Hugo. His post is distinguished by his attempt to be comprehensive. He says that when he was trying to start blogging all the “how to” posts were too shallow to be … Continue reading →

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Playing YouTube Videos in Emacs

Posted on 2022-10-25 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski often watches long YouTube videos (frequently lectures) and sometimes can’t watch the whole thing in a single sitting. A couple of weeks ago, he wrote a post about capturing the elapsed play time where he left off and … Continue reading →

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Undo In Region

Posted on 2022-10-24 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, tms9918 says he sometimes changes a line, make changes in other parts of the file, and then wants to restore that first line. He was asking if there was anyway of doing that. There is, … Continue reading →

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Organizing Your Life With Org Mode

Posted on 2022-10-23 by jcs

Karl Voit has reposted an article from 2018 on using Org-mode to organize your life. Voit, as many of you know, is very interested in personal information managers (PIMs) and curating information for later retrieval. He says that when he … Continue reading →

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Mickey on Generating TOTP Codes

Posted on 2022-10-22 by jcs

Happily for us Emacsers, Mickey has been blogging up a storm on Emacs topics lately. His latest offering is on generating TOPT codes with Emacs. TOPT is “Time-Based One-Time Password”. If that doesn’t mean anything to you, it’s the basis … Continue reading →

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Thoughts On A Text Editor

Posted on 2022-10-17 by jcs

Jeremy Friesen has some thoughts on what hopes and expects is his last text editor: Emacs. He’s been using Emacs only since 2020 so he probably can’t yet be described as a journeyman Emacs user but he is an experienced … Continue reading →

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Emacs Keystrokes in macOS

Posted on 2022-10-15 by jcs

This is your periodic reminder that you can get most of the Emacs editing keystrokes in any macOS application. I usually publish this reminder when I see a tweet or post from someone who has discovered that the Emacs cursor … Continue reading →

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Org-mode Is Easy

Posted on 2022-10-12 by jcs

Gavin Freeborn posted a video in which he argues that Org-mode is easy. The reason it’s easy, he says, is the same as I’ve often written: You don’t have to learn it all or even large parts of it to … Continue reading →

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Extract Captions From a Youtube Video

Posted on 2022-10-10 by jcs

Ag Ibragimov had a problem that many of us have experienced. He learned a term from a video but later couldn’t recall the term. We went back to the video to search for it but couldn’t find it. What to … Continue reading →

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Mandated Editor

Posted on 2022-10-09 by jcs

I recently came across a truly awful post to the Emacs subreddit. It wasn’t the post itself; it’s what it revealed. The post asked how to counter FUD from users of the bling-centric editors that Emacs was old technology that … Continue reading →

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