Tag Archives: Emacs

More on the Why of Emacs

Posted on 2021-06-14 by jcs

Jeremy Friesen has a bit more to say on why he uses Emacs. Last time we stopped by his blog, he explained how he molds Emacs to enhance his blogging workflow. This time he’s answering a question on the Emacs/reddit … Continue reading →

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Tramp Mode with Zsh

Posted on 2021-06-12 by jcs

Lennart Karssen has a tip for those of you who use tramp and zsh. He observed that if zsh was running on the remote machine and he tried to open a file with Ctrl+x Ctrl+f long timeouts would occur making … Continue reading →

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Molding Emacs

Posted on 2021-06-10 by jcs

Jeremy Friesen has an interesting post on how he uses Emacs to blog. That’s easy, right? Just use Org-mode and some Org → Blog interface such as Hugo or org2blog and you’ve automated away almost everything except the actual writing … Continue reading →

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Updating Emacs Packages from the Command Line

Posted on 2021-06-07 by jcs

Tassilo Horn has a (very) short post on how he updates all his Emacs packages from the command line. It involves installing auto-package-update but after that it’s simply a matter of calling Emacs and running auto-package-update-now. It would be easy, … Continue reading →

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An Org Setup

Posted on 2021-06-06 by jcs

Over at Mt. Solitary, Clinton Boys has a post on his Org-mode setup. In it he describes how he uses Org-mode to manage all his writing and the rest of his life. His basic layout is to divide his content … Continue reading →

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Emacs in 2021

Posted on 2021-06-03 by jcs

Tory Anderson has an interesting take on modern day Emacs. He starts by reviewing the problems that Emacs was created to solve. He starts with Bernard S. Greenberg’s 1979 paper on Multics Emacs, which I wrote about two and half … Continue reading →

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Getting a List of Open PRs from Github (Part 2)

Posted on 2021-06-01 by jcs

Three weeks ago, I wrote about Geoffrey Lessel’s video on writing an Emacs package to obtain a list of Pull Requests from a GitHub repository, present a chooser list, and then display the chosen PR in the default browser. That … Continue reading →

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Markup Languages Compared

Posted on 2021-05-30 by jcs

There are several popular light weight markup languages for producing printed or displayed typeset output. I use “light weight” to distinguish them from heavy duty markup languages such as TeX, LaTeX, or Troff. One thing they all have in common … Continue reading →

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How The Package System Works

Posted on 2021-05-28 by jcs

Jiacai Liu over at Keep Coding has an interesting post on the Emacs package system. The post is nominally about maintaining your Emacs configuration but is actually a quick overview on how the package system works. The problems that he’s … Continue reading →

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Magit 3.0 Released

Posted on 2021-05-25 by jcs

Jonas Bernoulli has just released Magit 3.0. It doesn’t appear to have reached MELPA yet but will doubtless appear shortly. The new release contains over 1,200 commits and comes two and a half years after the last feature release. Bernoulli’s … Continue reading →

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