Tag Archives: Emacs

Why You Should Learn Emacs This Year

Posted on 2021-01-05 by jcs

David Wilson over at the System Crafters YouTube channel is starting off the year with a video that gives you 5 Reasons to Learn Emacs in 2021. He begins by noting that Emacs is not a text editor or at … Continue reading →

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REPLs

Posted on 2021-01-03 by jcs

Mikel Evins has a lovely post that considers interactive programming and REPLs. As many of you know, I love interactive programming and am a huge fan of it. I like how you can try out bits of code and feel … Continue reading →

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Tangling Dotfiles From an Org File

Posted on 2021-01-02 by jcs

Despite the XDG base directory specification, configuration files are still stored all over our file systems. If you have a single machine, maintaining those files is not too much trouble—they’re almost all “set it and forget it”—but when you have … Continue reading →

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Abo-abo on Org-Roam

Posted on 2021-01-01 by jcs

Regular readers know that I’m very taken with the Zettelkasten idea and have implemented my own (sort of) Zettelkasten with Org-mode. My homegrown solution is not very featureful or convenient so I installed org-roam (a FOSS alternative to the popular … Continue reading →

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Emacs FAQ

Posted on 2020-12-29 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, okimka suggests that an Emacs FAQ for the subreddit would be a good idea and even suggests a few questions and their answers. The comments generally complained about the questions and some of the answers … Continue reading →

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More on Emacs and the Unix Way

Posted on 2020-12-28 by jcs

Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) just put up an interesting post that serves as a nice coda to yesterday’s Irreal post, Emacs As a 2D CLI. His take is not so much that Emacs fits nicely into the Unix paradigm but that … Continue reading →

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Emacs As a 2D CLI

Posted on 2020-12-27 by jcs

Hongchao Liu has an interesting discussion about viewing Emacs as a two dimensional command line interface. He begins by arguing that Emacs does, in fact, adhere to the Unix principal of doing one thing well. That’s very counterintuitive but Liu … Continue reading →

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Org Mode for Reproducible Research

Posted on 2020-12-26 by jcs

Thibault Lestang of Oxford University has a very nice video that makes the case for using Emacs and, in particular, Org-mode for academic research. He’s very interested in reproducible research and his talk is centered around the idea of Org-mode … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: C++

Posted on 2020-12-25 by jcs

It’s Christmas and it’s Friday so here’s a little gift from the Minions and me: #quotes #tech #CPP #programming #language #emacs pic.twitter.com/K5uWmRuVph — Devopedia (@devopedia) December 25, 2020

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Finding Pangrams in the NYT Spelling Bee Puzzle

Posted on 2020-12-23 by jcs

From time to time I find a reference to a New York Times article in my feed. I had to register with the NYT to be able to read them and one side effect of that registration is that every … Continue reading →

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