Tag Archives: Emacs

An Emacs Workflow for Videos and Podcasts

Posted on 2020-09-11 by jcs

Protesilaos Stavrou has posted a very nice video that describes how he uses Bongo and Elfeed to play and control his videos and podcasts. Just being able to handle your videos and podcasts with Emacs is a win because it … Continue reading →

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Avi Navigation

Posted on 2020-09-07 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subredit, RecursiveTraverser says that of all the Avy navigation commands he likes avy-goto-char-timer the best and asks if anyone else agrees. Those who answered agreed with him but there’s no reason to prefer it to the … Continue reading →

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Gnus

Posted on 2020-09-06 by jcs

I am really enjoying mu4e again after fixing the problem that caused it to be so slow. As I’ve said before, I’m very happy with mu4e and don’t have any desire to replace it. Nevertheless, I always find it interesting … Continue reading →

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Two Clicks Needed for Menus on macOS

Posted on 2020-09-02 by jcs

This is another one of those posts that are of interest only to folks using Emacs on macOS. For some time, the Emacs menus haven’t been working right for me on macOS. In previous versions of Emacs/macOS, there would be … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 74: Eglot

Posted on 2020-08-31 by jcs

Mike Zamansky is back with another video in his Using Emacs Series. It’s worth noting that this is number 74. That’s a huge corpus of first rate videos serving the Emacs community. If you’re in NYC and run across Zamansky, … Continue reading →

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Tracking Exercise with Org-mode

Posted on 2020-08-30 by jcs

Polaris64 has a very interesting post about using org-mode to track his expercising. That doesn’t sound particularly interesting, I know, but read on to find out why I find it worth mentioning. If I wanted to track my exercising, the … Continue reading →

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Hyperbole

Posted on 2020-08-29 by jcs

A while ago, Bob Weiner asked me to take a look at Hyperbole and maybe write a post about it. It’s been in my queue to do that ever since but Hyperbole is a large and complex system and every … Continue reading →

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From SMS to an Org TODO

Posted on 2020-08-27 by jcs

Many Org-mode users are looking for a way to add notes and TODOs when they aren’t at their computers. Most folks use one of the smart phone apps such as beorg or orgzly or perhaps even organice. Kevin Cunningham has … Continue reading →

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Another Thesaurus for Emacs

Posted on 2020-08-26 by jcs

It’s really handy to have a thesaurus handy when you’re writing, and of course if you’re writing in Emacs, you want to have that thesaurus available and easily accessible from Emacs. I’ve been using power thesaurus and its Emacs interface, … Continue reading →

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Using Multiple Dictionaries for Spellchecking in Emacs

Posted on 2020-08-24 by jcs

Alain M. Lafon has an interesting post on spellchecking in Emacs. Lafon is Swiss and therefore has to deal with four official languages as well as German and English in his day-to-day life. The Swiss with their usual efficiency handle … Continue reading →

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