Tag Archives: Emacs

Two Tramp Tricks

Over at TAONAW JTR has a nice post on a couple of tramp tricks. They’re pretty simple and don’t require any heavy duty configuration or setup. The first is to set dired-dwim-target to t. The variable is a bit more … Continue reading

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Org 9.4.6 Released

Bastien has announced that Org-mode 9.4.6 has been released. It’s a bug release and is planned to be the last release before version 9.5. The easiest way to get it is from Org ELPA.

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Emacs and Web Browsing

I’ve written many times that almost all my computer time is spent in Emacs and my browser (Safari). What all us everything-in-Emacs devotees want is to do away with using an external browser. We yak yak yak about eww but … Continue reading

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Ivy To Selectrum

I’ve written many times how important the Ivy/Counsel/Swiper package is to my workflow. Other than Org-mode, it is the most important package in my Emacs panoply. Even so, it does so much that I don’t make use of all its … Continue reading

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Protesilaos Stavrou on Notmuch

As all of you know by now, I’m a big fan of mu/mu4e for handling email. For me, one of its major attractions is that it runs in Emacs. For those of us who prefer to do as much as … Continue reading

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Distraction Free Writing

Phil Newton does a lot of writing. He’s written a book and has a blog and does all his writing in Org mode. That sounds pretty much like me but unlike me, Newton likes to write in what he calls … Continue reading

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A Year With Emacs

Jakub Kadlčík just finished a year with Emacs. Before that, he was a Vim user for 10 years. He felt that he had reached “peak learning” with Vim except for writing plugins, which VimL made unattractive to him. Emacs’ extension … Continue reading

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Nick Higham’s Blogging Workflow

Nick Higham is a working mathematician so his blog has a heavy mathematical content and that means that he’s very concerned with integrating LaTeX into his workflow. Fortunately, that’s pretty easy because he writes his posts in org-mode and publishes … Continue reading

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Being More Productive with Emacs

Peter Prevos has an excellent series of beginner articles on being more productive with Emacs. The series comprises the following posts: Getting Started with Emacs Configure Emacs Distraction-Free Writing with Emacs Getting Things Done with Emacs Taking Notes with Emacs … Continue reading

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Getting a List of Open PRs from Github

Geoffrey Lessel is an Elisp n00b. Really a n00b. He’s not sure what the car and cdr of a list are and he doesn’t understand backquotes. But he’s not afraid to dig in and discover things as he goes along. … Continue reading

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