Tag Archives: Emacs

Emacs 27.1-RC1

Posted on 2020-07-30 by jcs

Emacs 27 is entering the home stretch. Nicolas Petton has pushed a commit bumping the version number from 27.0.91 to 27.1 and prepared tar and zip files for RC1. If you can, download it and try it out. The testing … Continue reading →

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Super-links

Posted on 2020-07-29 by jcs

This looks promising. Karl Voit has a post about org-super-links and their use in implementing a sort of poor man’s Zettelkasten. Super-links is still very preliminary but the idea is to provide an automatic way of implementing back links, something … Continue reading →

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An Emacs/Org-mode Setup for Writing

Posted on 2020-07-28 by jcs

Bhalla Kunal over at expLog has an interesting post on his writing setup. It’s Emacs and Org-mode based but, interestingly, he says that the thing that helped his workflow the most was rotating his monitor so that he had more … Continue reading →

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The Right Dictionary and How to Get It

Posted on 2020-07-27 by jcs

Yesterday, I saw a tweet in which someone referred to Marcin Borkowski’s 2017 post on using the Webster 1923 dictionary in Emacs. Why would you want to do that? The answer to that is given in James Somers’ 2014 post, … Continue reading →

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A Paper-Like Emacs Writing Configuration

Posted on 2020-07-25 by jcs

Manuel Uberti enjoys writing his journal entries with pen and paper. Lots of people do although I’m not one of them. The fact, as I’m sure I’ve mentioned before, that I have terrible handwriting no doubt has something to do … Continue reading →

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Quit Processes on Exit from Emacs

Posted on 2020-07-23 by jcs

Yesterday, I wrote about fixing a small annoyance on my MacBook. Here’s a quickie from Bozhidar Batsov that fixes another small annoyance. This time the annoyance is with Emacs, although as Batsov explains, it’s particularly annoying on macOS. The problem … Continue reading →

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A Shortcut Manager for My Emacs-centric Workstation

Posted on 2020-07-21 by jcs

At first glance, this post might appear to be of interest only to Mac users but most of the ideas also apply to other systems. As I’ve written many times, Emacs is at the center of my computing workflow. Almost … Continue reading →

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Emacs for Everything

Posted on 2020-07-20 by jcs

Alex Schroeder is an Emacs user who, like me, does as much as he can in Emacs. Also like me, he spends most of his tube time in Emacs or a browser. Unlike me, he uses EWW for a good … Continue reading →

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Emacs Keybindings on macOS Redux

Posted on 2020-07-19 by jcs

I just saw this tweet from Vivek Haldar Little-known fact: Common #Emacs Shortcuts (C-{a, e, k, y, n, p, b, f}) work *universally* in Mac OS X. In any text box in any app. — Vivek Haldar (@vivekhaldar) July 18, … Continue reading →

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Polyglot Documents in Org-mode

Posted on 2020-07-18 by jcs

The University of Oxford Software Engineering Research group (OxRSE) has an interesting post on how they use Org-mode to publish tutorial material with the examples in different programming languages. The idea is to present the concepts, which are language agnostic, … Continue reading →

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