Tag Archives: Emacs

Attaching Files to an Org Tree from Dired

Posted on 2021-12-19 by jcs

Daniel Gopar offers up this gem on attaching Dired files to an Org-mode tree: #orgtip: Found this little nugget that I didn’t know existed. You can attach files from a dired buffer to an #orgmode tree.https://t.co/iTfBLHBvVm#emacs — Daniel Gopar (@pygopar) … Continue reading →

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Five Emacs Features to Love

Posted on 2021-12-17 by jcs

Seth Kenlon of Red Hat has an interesting article on five reasons that he love Emacs. Of course, all of us Emacs users have lots of reasons that we love our editor, but Kenlon’s articles considers how those features are … Continue reading →

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Emacs and Siri Shortcuts

Posted on 2021-12-16 by jcs

MacOS Shortcuts are a recent addition to Apple’s various operating systems that provides an easy way to automate various workflows. You can tap on the shortcut or even ask Siri to run it. It’s an interesting idea but I haven’t … Continue reading →

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Five Hacks for Org Roam

Posted on 2021-12-15 by jcs

David Wilson of the System Crafters Channel has a new video in his Build a Second Brain playlist. The serious is about Org-roam, and is, as I’ve said before, the best introduction to and guide for setting up Org-roam that … Continue reading →

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Deleting Garbage Files

Posted on 2021-12-14 by jcs

John D. Cook who, among other things, publishes the TeX Tips Twitter feed, is an Emacs user and has a useful tip for cleaning up “garbage files”. Garbage files are intermediate files that can easily be regenerated. Examples are the … Continue reading →

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Native Compilation in Emacs

Posted on 2021-12-11 by jcs

Andrea Corallo gave an interesting talk at EmacsConf 2021 on his Emacs Lisp native compilation project. For those who don’t know, the native compilation project provides a compiler that converts Emacs Lisp into native code for the host machine. The … Continue reading →

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Cloning Buffers

Posted on 2021-12-09 by jcs

Mickey Petersen tweets about cloning buffers and makes explicit a distinction that I must admit I wasn’t clear on. You can clone indirect buffers in #emacs with C-x 4 c — very useful if you want to browse two or … Continue reading →

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An Emacs.app Bundle for macOS

Posted on 2021-12-08 by jcs

A few days ago, I wrote about a script to build Emacs on the Mac M1. It was perfect for Mac users who want to build their own Emacs exactly the way they want. Not everyone wants to do that, … Continue reading →

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An Emacs Build Script for macOS

Posted on 2021-12-05 by jcs

Colin McLear (mclearc) has a script for building Emacs on macOS. He uses it to build Emacs on the M1 MacBook pro running Monterrey 12.0.1. I see lots of requests from people asking where they can find an Emacs binary … Continue reading →

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Emacs 28 Pretest 1

Posted on 2021-12-04 by jcs

Stefan Kangas writes to tell us that Emacs 28.0.90, the first Emacs 28 pretest, is available at the usual places. That’s good news because it means that Emacs 28 is within sight. If you can, be sure to try it … Continue reading →

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