Tag Archives: Emacs

Capturing the Current File Location

Posted on 2022-06-26 by jcs

Marcin Borkowsi has a nice post on how to capture the current file’s location and copy it to the system clipboard. It’s just what you need for sharing information about data in a file with a colleague. By file location … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Notion

Posted on 2022-06-24 by jcs

Romain Slootmaekers has his own take on the Notion app: @notionhq is an org mode for the #emacs challenged. There I said it. — Romain Slootmaekers (@toolslive666) June 17, 2022 To be fair, Notion is a pretty nice app but … Continue reading →

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Hiding Some Org Subtrees

Posted on 2022-06-23 by jcs

The other day I wrote about Kaushal Modi’s post on Advice Combinators. Modi has another post that uses that information but the post is interesting in its own right. The problem is to fold (or collapse) headings having a certain … Continue reading →

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Advice Combinators

Posted on 2022-06-21 by jcs

A really powerful Emacs feature for those who know a bit of Elisp in the ability to advise functions. Historically, the defadvice macro allowed the specification of code to run before, after, or around a function call. It’s really handy … Continue reading →

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Emacs and the Lindy Effect

Posted on 2022-06-19 by jcs

Vivek Haldar has an observation about the expected lifetime of Emacs: Safe to say that at this point #emacs has gone Lindy.https://t.co/HjsfWmE3ug — Vivek Haldar (@vivekhaldar) June 12, 2022 The Lindy Effect postulates that the longer some (nonperishable) entity has … Continue reading →

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Highlighting

Posted on 2022-06-18 by jcs

This week there were two excellent posts on highlighting in Emacs. The first was Marcin Borkowski’s post, Highlighting and de-highlighting things. He covers most of highlighting commands but not their default keybindings. When I first saw Borkowski’s post I thought … Continue reading →

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Elfeed-tube

Posted on 2022-06-14 by jcs

As regular readers know, I’m a huge fan of RSS and of using elfeed to read and curate my feeds. If you’re an Emacs user and not using elfeed, you’re really missing out. It’s the absolute best feed reader I’ve … Continue reading →

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How To Create A Missing Directory

Posted on 2022-06-13 by jcs

If you’ve been around Emacs for a while, you probably know that Emacs has you covered if you call find-file (Ctrl+x Ctrl+f) and specify a path with a missing directory. You simply get asked if you want to create the … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Who’s Next?

Posted on 2022-06-10 by jcs

As most of you have probably heard by now, the Atom editor is being discontinued in December. That’s sad, of course, especially for Atom users but there are some lessons to be drawn. Eric Fraga has the TL;DR: This is … Continue reading →

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Proced

Posted on 2022-06-09 by jcs

Bhaskar Chowdhury has a nice video on using proced in Emacs. He covers many, but not all of the things you can do with it. As Chowdhury says, proced is best thought of as a top substitute built into Emacs. … Continue reading →

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