Tag Archives: Emacs

Logging mbsync Errors

Posted on 2021-07-25 by jcs

I’ve been using mu4e and mbsync for the last four years and love it. One of the things you discover early in your use of mbsync is that it loves spew messages into the minibuffer. That would be okay except … Continue reading →

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Prot on Dired

Posted on 2021-07-23 by jcs

Protesilaos Stavrou has a new video up about his customizations of dired. Dired is one of those things that you either love or ignore. Even I, a hardcore command line guy, use dired for the majority of my file operations. … Continue reading →

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System Crafters: Magit 2

Posted on 2021-07-21 by jcs

David Wilson over at the System Crafters YouTube channel has his second video on Magit up. Irreal looked at the first video a couple of weeks ago. In the current video, Wilson considers some of the intermediate Magit functions. He … Continue reading →

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PSA: Mastering Emacs is On Sale Until Monday

Posted on 2021-07-20 by jcs

If you’re an Emacser, you’ve certainly heard of Mickey Petersen’s book Matering Emacs. If you’ve been thinking about getting a copy, now’s the time because it’s 20% off until Monday. My book, Mastering Emacs, is now on sale. Get a … Continue reading →

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Calc Formulae in the Minibuffer

Posted on 2021-07-19 by jcs

Tony Aldon has another quick video up that considers using Org-mode table formulae in the minibuffer. It’s a nice way of trying out a formula or even using them to make calculations and inserting the results into the current buffer. … Continue reading →

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Like Musical Instruments for Musicians

Posted on 2021-07-16 by jcs

Ayrat Badykov has a nifty short post on why he thinks Emacs is a great text editor. As for many developers, Badykov was inspired to learn Emacs when he saw how much more efficient the Vim and Emacs users were … Continue reading →

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Query: Emacs Vterm on the M1

Posted on 2021-07-14 by jcs

A while ago I asked about Emacs on the Mac M1. Everyone who replied agreed that Emacs ran without problems so I got myself an M1. I really like it and have almost got it configured as my default machine. … Continue reading →

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See the Underlying Org Entry for an Agenda Item

Posted on 2021-07-13 by jcs

Here’s a quick tip that I just learned about from Tory Anderson: TIL about org-agenda-entry-text-mode to see the underlying entries behind your agenda notes. This #emacs #EducationalMistype brought to you by learning Dvorak keyboard. — (webdev “Tory”) (@Endless_WebDev) July 12, … Continue reading →

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Lesser Known Functionalities in Core Emacs

Posted on 2021-07-11 by jcs

Philip Kaludercic has an interesting post on some little known functionality in core Emacs. One of the wonders of Emacs is the package system that can add practically any desired feature to Emacs. That sometimes means that we forget how … Continue reading →

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Debugging Field Formulae in Org Tables

Posted on 2021-07-10 by jcs

Tony Aldon has another video up in his Inside Emacs series. This one considers the debugging of field formulae in Org tables. If you’ve ever used a formula in an Org table, you’ve probably encountered an error where instead of … Continue reading →

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