Tag Archives: Emacs

Org Roam From An Outsider’s View

As most of you know, I’m a big fan of the Zettelkasten idea and of its org-roam implementation in Emacs. There are several videos on org-roam, including the System Crafter series, that will help you get started. Matt Williams also … Continue reading

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Renaming Files With Dired

I’ve written about this many times before but it’s so useful it bears repeating. It’s about a technique I use all the time and one that I’m sure the rest of you will find worthwhile too. This post is inspired … Continue reading

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Red Meat Friday: Real Software Is Not Written with IDEs

Last week’s Red Meat Friday was essentially anodyne so here’s something to get (certain) people’s juices flowing: real software is written in #vim, #nano, or #emacs. if you still use an ide (especially for interpreter languages), go back to high … Continue reading

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Choosing Your Tools

Yann Esposito has an interesting take on choosing tools and the choice between VS Code and Emacs. His post is from a couple of years ago but has aged well. He reminds us of a Microsoft strategy that we all … Continue reading

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Are Multiple Cursors Suboptimal?

Over at EINVAL, Wojciech Siewierski considers multiple cursors (in Emacs) and whether it’s suboptimal. His post is entitled Multiple cursors considered… suboptimal, which seems rather provocative but the post is actually very even handed and concludes, as you’d expect, that … Continue reading

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Another PhD Workflow

I’ve written previously about the PhD workflows of Gilles Castel and Sam Wallace. They’re Emacs based and highly efficient. Now, Tony Zorman has published his own PhD workflow. It’s also Emacs based and has several interesting wrinkles. The most salient … Continue reading

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Book Logging

Jack Baty has a post on how he logs the books he’s read. Logging books you read may be useful information to keep but it’s probably not all that interesting to others. What is interesting, though, is how he uses … Continue reading

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The Golden Age of Emacs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, tdavey asks if we’re living in the golden age of Emacs. He’s an unlikely person to be asking this question because he’s not a developer or scientist. He is, to use his words, “an ordinary … Continue reading

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A User Discovers the Difference Between Vim and Emacs

In another Vim to Emacs story, LowCom over at the Emacs subreddit offers his take on the transition. It’s interesting because his analysis focuses on how Vim and Emacs differ. He says, as I often have, that you can’t really … Continue reading

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An Apostate Returns

It’s a commonplace in the Emacs community that one of the big advantages of Emacs is that all your tools are connected and work with each other. Those of us at the extreme edge of that truism make it a … Continue reading

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