Tag Archives: Emacs

Red Meat Friday: Atom and VSCode

Posted on 2020-06-05 by jcs

I recently saw a tweet that has some things to say about Atom and VSCode that are sure to make certain heads explode. It’s red meat, it’s Friday so here’s today’s Red Meat Friday offering: Years ago, I wish I … Continue reading →

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Summarizing Class Notes

Posted on 2020-06-04 by jcs

Matheus Augusto da Silva has an interesting video that details how he uses Emacs and Org-mode to write summaries of his class notes. After a class, he likes to write a half page summary of his notes. He finds that … Continue reading →

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More On The Magit Initial Status Page

Posted on 2020-06-01 by jcs

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about setting the initial visibility of Magit sections. It was a bit of a nuisance but without it I had large expanded sections that invited an inadvertent stage command that could freeze Emacs … Continue reading →

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Escape from VSCode

Posted on 2020-05-31 by jcs

Zameer Ul Haque has an interesting post in which he describes his escape from VSCode. Usually when you see stories like this, they’re about escaping from Vim and moving to Emacs or the other way around. Now that the new … Continue reading →

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Ed in Emacs

Posted on 2020-05-30 by jcs

You live long enough, you see everything. I just came across ed-mode. If you’re an Emacs user who also has retro tendencies and likes to play around with old-time editors, now you can explore the “standard Unix editor” from the … Continue reading →

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Emacs Through Macros 7–9

Posted on 2020-05-27 by jcs

Once again, I lost track of Sahas Subramanian’s Emacs through macros videos and while I wasn’t looking he’s posted 3 more. Number 7 is about grep and doesn’t use macros in any significant way. Number 8 is an exercise that … Continue reading →

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An Org Refile Workflow

Posted on 2020-05-26 by jcs

Yiming Chen has an interesting post on his org-refile workflow. Before you read his post, though, you should (re)read Aaron Bieber’s Organizing Notes With Refile that I wrote about back in 2018. Bieber’s post gives you the background you need … Continue reading →

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Eshell Demo

Posted on 2020-05-25 by jcs

Protesilaos Stavrou is all in on Eshell. On the very rare occasions that he needs a “standard shell,” he fires it up in Emacs using vterm but mostly he uses Eshell because he considers it a superior solution. He’s posted … Continue reading →

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Elfeed Tweaks

Posted on 2020-05-23 by jcs

On Thursday, Mike Zamansky published a video on some tweaks he made to Elfeed. As soon as I wrote and published a post about it, I found two more posts on hacking Elfeed to make it better fit the tweaker’s … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 72: Customizing Elfeed

Posted on 2020-05-22 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has a new video up in his Using Emacs Series and an update on his last video (Zamansky 71: Openwith). Let’s deal with the update first. As you’ll recall, the problem Zamansky was trying to solve was being … Continue reading →

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