Tag Archives: Emacs

Reading RSS With Elfeed

Posted on 2022-03-06 by jcs

Irreal regulars know that I’m a huge fan of Christopher Wellons’ Elfeed. It’s an Emacs-based RSS reader that allows you to manage and read your RSS feeds from within Emacs. If you’re already an Emacs user, there’s no reason not … Continue reading →

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Setting latexpreview on Document Startup

Posted on 2022-03-05 by jcs

NOTE: Once again, WordPress is refusing to publish the embedded tweet. I don’t think this is Twitter’s fault because it renders perfectly on my local machine; it’s just when I try to push it to WordPress that it fails. I’ve … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Forget Linux, Just Use Emacs

Posted on 2022-03-04 by jcs

An enduring trope in the Emacs community is the notion that Emacs isn’t really an editor, it’s an operating system. We always say we’re joking but sometimes it’s hard to tell. The idea is not completely unfounded. After all, there’s … Continue reading →

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How To Use Tags

Posted on 2022-03-02 by jcs

In response to my post Renaming Tags, Karl Voit pointed me to his recent post on How To Use Tags. He said that his system could solve many of the problems I experience with using tags. It’s a long post … Continue reading →

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Using Paredit’s Slurp and Barf

Posted on 2022-03-01 by jcs

I’ve been using paredit for 11 or 12 years. I don’t use nearly all its features but I still wouldn’t want to live without it. As I discovered early on, the real secret of paredit is understanding slurp and barf. … Continue reading →

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Podcasts with Elfeed and EMMS

Posted on 2022-02-28 by jcs

Arne Babenhauserheide has an interesting post on how he listens to podcasts in Emacs using Elfeed and EMMS. It’s a perfect workflow: the podcast episodes are collected from RSS and listed with Elfeed and those he wants to listen to … Continue reading →

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Renaming Tags

Posted on 2022-02-27 by jcs

Ravi Sagar has a quick video that shows you how to bulk-rename tags in an Org file. If you don’t use tags in your Org files, this probably seems like something you’d hardly ever want to do. Indeed, even Sabar … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Taking Up Space With Metadata

Posted on 2022-02-25 by jcs

Note: For some reason WordPress refused to embed Fraga’s tweet so I had to link to the tweet instead. As you all know by now, I prefer a minimalist approach to my editor screen layout. I want as much screen … Continue reading →

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Six Useful Emacs Settings

Posted on 2022-02-24 by jcs

David Wilson over at the System Crafters Channel has a new video up on The 6 Emacs Settings Every User Should Consider. The six settings are Enable remembering recently edited files Enable minibuffer history Enable remembering last place visited in … Continue reading →

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Ibuffer

Posted on 2022-02-17 by jcs

This tweet from Mickey `M-x ibuffer’ is a strictly superior buffer list compared to the default one in #emacs bound to `C-x C-b’. It comes with dozens of commands and utility features. Like filtering and grouping, highlighting, and much, much … Continue reading →

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