Tag Archives: Emacs

Dictionaries and Emacs

Posted on 2022-10-08 by jcs

Somewhere in 2014–2015, I came across James Somers’ beautiful article on Webster’s 1913 dictionary and why it’s the right choice. It was a revelation to me, opening my eyes to a wonderful resource that ever since has helped me find … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Is The FSF Fighting The Previous War?

Posted on 2022-10-07 by jcs

This is a bit genuine red meat and perhaps a little sensitive for some people but it does raise a point that deserves discussion. A shorthand for that point is the title of today’s post. A more descriptive way of … Continue reading →

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Emacs Debugging

Posted on 2022-10-05 by jcs

Guangwang Huang, over at whatacold’s space, has a useful post on debugging Emacs. It’s aimed at beginners but will be useful for more experienced Emacsers too. The basic idea is what you should do when you start Emacs and get … Continue reading →

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A N00b’s View of Emacs

Posted on 2022-10-04 by jcs

Mahmoud Mazouz is an Emacs n00b. He’s been using Emacs for about two months but has experience with (neo)Vim and VS Code. He recently posted his view of Emacs and what he sees as its strengths. Like many (or, perhaps, … Continue reading →

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Letters With Org-mod

Posted on 2022-10-02 by jcs

If you’re like me and want to do all your writing from within Org-mode, one problem you need to solve is how to write letters—especially professional letters. I use a LaTeX template and write the letter in LaTeX but mostly … Continue reading →

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Yasnippet for Prose Writing

Posted on 2022-10-01 by jcs

When you think about it, the title of this post doesn’t appear to make sense. Yasnippet is a template system for adding customized boiler plate to an Emacs buffer. It’s raison d’être is to enable shortcuts for various programming constructs … Continue reading →

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Video On The Birth of Emacs

Posted on 2022-09-29 by jcs

I just ran across a video on the birth of Emacs from last year. It’s by Lars Brinkhoff, Irreal’s go to guy for questions on the history of Emacs. As I’ve written before, he maintains a repository of historical Emacs … Continue reading →

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Emacs As A Bash IDE

Posted on 2022-09-28 by jcs

Torstein Johansen has an interesting video on using Emacs as an IDE for shell programming—especially Bash shell programming. We, or at least I, don’t usually think of shell programming as requiring an IDE but as Johansen shows, a bit of … Continue reading →

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Describe Symbol

Posted on 2022-09-25 by jcs

A short post for a lazy Sunday. Grant Rettke over at Wisdom and Wonder has a quick tip. He recommends trying describe-symbol for invoking Emacs builtin documentation. He says that it’s almost always what you want when you invoke describe-function … Continue reading →

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Extending Org Links and Youtube

Posted on 2022-09-24 by jcs

Charanjit Singh has an interesting post on extending org-mode to handle youtube links. His goal was two-fold: Have an Org link type for Youtube videos that opened the video in mpv instead of the browwser When exporting to HTML the … Continue reading →

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