Tag Archives: Emacs

TMR Video

Despite what I wrote last time about tmr, I’ve come to realize that deep down I’m a timer nerd. As my family will tell you, I can be anal about following directions precisely. If the recipe says to beat the … Continue reading

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The Success of Markdown

Anil Dash has a long post on How Markdown Took Over The World. We Org mode users may have a few problems with that depiction but it is fair to say that Markdown usage has become ubiquitous. We see it … Continue reading

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Regulating Your Writing Workflow With Emacs

A few days ago, Chris Maiorana wrote an article, The 10-Commit Rule: how git version control can improve writing quality, about how he uses Git and Emacs to regulate his writing workflow. The idea is to track how many changes … Continue reading

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Bending Emacs 10: Agent Shell

Álvaro Ramírez has a new Bending Emacs video up. This time it’s about his agent-shell app that serves as uniform Emacs interface to LLM agents supporting the Agent Client Protocol (ACP). I’m not interested in LLM technology so you almost … Continue reading

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Multiple Editing Instances Of A Single File

Emacs has a couple of builtin ways of dealing with separate windows that are looking at the same file. The default method is to simply “open” the file again in a separate window. In this case you have two views … Continue reading

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Making Agenda Items Into Appointments

Every Org mode user knows that you can add tasks to your Org agenda with a SCHEDULED or DEADLINE keyword. That will cause your agenda to warn you ahead of time of upcoming tasks requiring your attention. Emacs also has … Continue reading

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Unfill

I saw this post from mbork on paragraph filling. It’s a nice post and I’ll probably write about it later but today I want write about something else he mentioned in his post: unfill.el. It’s from Steve Purcell and has … Continue reading

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The Emacs OS: The Unix Way Vs. The Emacs Way

Chris Maiorana has decided to take the old joke about Emacs being an operating seriously. Or at least at face value. He has planned a series of posts where he compares the Unix way of doing things to the Emacs … Continue reading

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A New Package.el Feature

One of the problems with the ELPA package manager is that you never know what you’re getting when you upgrade. The package manager tells you what packages can be upgraded and you can choose to upgrade or not but you … Continue reading

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Running Emacs As A Service

Matthias over at Ahoi Blog makes an observation that I’ve also made many times: Discussion about Emacs startup times ends as soon as you run Emacs as a daemon. The startup is instantaneous and if you prefer a Vim-like way … Continue reading

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