Tag Archives: Emacs

Editors versus IDEs

Posted on 2022-04-24 by jcs

Over at the Hacking the Grepson podcast, Mike and Matt discuss text editors versus IDEs. The podcast was at once informative and annoying. On the one hand, they discuss the difference between a text editor and an IDE. If you’re … Continue reading →

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Invoking the *Messages* Buffer

Posted on 2022-04-23 by jcs

The Emacs Command of the Day Twitter feed tells us something that I didn’t know: Fun fact about the minibuffer: you can click it when it’s inactive! This opens the *Messages* buffer. (Especially handy if you want to read messages … Continue reading →

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Org Mode 9.5.3

Posted on 2022-04-22 by jcs

I somehow missed this yesterday but Bastien has announced the release of Org-mode 9.5.3. It’s a bug release so it’s probably not urgent to install it unless you’re being bitten by one of the bugs. Bantien’s announcement notes that the … Continue reading →

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Tony Aldon On Catch/Throw

Posted on 2022-04-21 by jcs

Here’s another post from Tony Aldon. Sacha already covered it in Emacs News but it’s interesting enough that it deserves another mention. The post is about catch/throw and examples of its use. Aldon starts with some simple made up examples … Continue reading →

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Tony Aldon: Another Wgrep Workflow

Posted on 2022-04-20 by jcs

Ever since I read Abo-abo’s post on using wgrep to edit multiple files, I’ve been a huge fan of using grep to search for some regular expression in multiple file, write enable the results buffer with wgrep, make changes to … Continue reading →

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Emacs and Calibre

Posted on 2022-04-17 by jcs

Garjola Dindi has a very interesting post on using Calibre from within Emacs. Dindi already read his books from within Emacs using nov.el for Epubs and pdf-tools for PDFs but because he manages his library with Calibre, he had to … Continue reading →

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ERC: The Builtin Emacs IRC Chat Client

Posted on 2022-04-16 by jcs

Derek Taylor over at DistroTube has a nice video up on ERC, the builtin Emacs IRC chat client. IRC is, of course, invisible to most of the general public and maybe even some of the younger nerds. It’s a very … Continue reading →

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A Second Brain in Plain Text

Posted on 2022-04-14 by jcs

Knowledge workers—which includes engineers, of course—often find they’re trying to hold too much information in their heads. When that happens, they frequently turn to what’s popularly known as a “second brain”. This can take many forms. There are dedicated applications, … Continue reading →

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Curved Quotes in *HELP* and *MESSAGES* Buffers

Posted on 2022-04-12 by jcs

Since Emacs 25, single and double quote in the *HELP* and *MESSAGES* buffers are transliterated to their curved equivalents. This is usually, but not always, what you want. It turns out you can control whether or not the transliteration takes … Continue reading →

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A Research Work Flow in Emacs and Org-mode

Posted on 2022-04-11 by jcs

Sam Wallace has an interesting post on how he takes research notes. He’s a Mathematics PhD student so he reads lots of papers that he has to take notes on as well as class notes and his own research projects. … Continue reading →

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