Tag Archives: Emacs

Mastering Emacs is a Slow But Enjoyable Process

Posted on 2020-12-22 by jcs

Over at Where parallels cross, Andrea has an interesting post that recounts his slow but enjoyable journey to Emacs mastery. Like many Emacsers, the journey began with his PhD studies. Since then he has learned more Emacs and integrated it … Continue reading →

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Emacs for the Humanities

Posted on 2020-12-21 by jcs

Most of you know that I have a longstanding interest in the use of Emacs outside the programming/engineering fields. I’m strictly within those fields, of course, but it’s always seemed to me that Emacs has a lot to offer someone … Continue reading →

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Emacs 27.1.90 Is Out

Posted on 2020-12-20 by jcs

Emacs 27.2 is drawing nearer with the release of the first pretest, Emacs 27.1.90. Eli Zaretskii made the announcement on the emacs-devel list. If living a bit on the edge doesn’t bother you, Eli and the rest of the developers … Continue reading →

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Org Spreadsheet Tutorial

Posted on 2020-12-19 by jcs

Over at DjPj, pjs64 has a nice tutorial on using some of the spreadsheet properties of an Org tables. It’s one of the most powerful aspects of Org tables and I use it all the time. The trouble is, it … Continue reading →

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Bit By Bit?

Posted on 2020-12-15 by jcs

Speaking of screaming from all sides, here’s a warning for those of you who are open source advocates and VS Code users. Microsoft has released a new LSP server for Python. The server is for VS Code and Microsoft says … Continue reading →

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More Batteries

Posted on 2020-12-14 by jcs

Karthik Chikmagalur is back with another post in his Batteries Included with Emacs series. This post, More Batteries Included with Emacs, is the second and last of his posts on little known features of vanilla Emacs. His first post in … Continue reading →

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Sorting with Regular Expressions

Posted on 2020-12-12 by jcs

Tory Anderson has a nice use case for the sort-regexp-fields command. When I first saw his post I thought sort-regexp-fields was another new find for me. But on checking, I discovered that I had used in back in 2011 in … Continue reading →

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Bozhidar Batsov’s Favorite Packages

Posted on 2020-12-11 by jcs

We all have our favorite Emacs packages. I’ve written about mine a few times (1, 2, 3). A few packages make almost everyone’s list. There’s Magit and Org-mode, of course. Many people say at least one of those is the … Continue reading →

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Threading Macros in Elisp

Posted on 2020-12-10 by jcs

As I’ve mentioned in some recent posts, Mike Zamansky is making his annual pilgrimage to the Advent of Code Website to try his hand at the problems. This year—so far, at least—he’s been using Clojure to solve the problems. I … Continue reading →

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Phone Notifications When a Command Completes

Posted on 2020-12-06 by jcs

Before we get to today’s topic, I want to point you to Mike Zamansky’s latest video on using Clojure for Advent of Code problems. Emacs appears, of course, although it’s not really the point of the video. Even so, I … Continue reading →

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