Tag Archives: Emacs

Perry Metzger: The Editor for the Next 40 Years

Posted on 2019-11-26 by jcs

The videos from the Emacs Conference 2019 are up at YouTube. As many of you know I’m a big fan of Perry Metzger’s 2014 talk on 31 years as an Emacs user so the first video I watched was what … Continue reading →

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Scimax and Reproducibility

Posted on 2019-11-25 by jcs

The College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon has an interesting article on their Web site about John Kitchin and his work on Scimax. I’ve written about Scimax several times (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) so longtime Irreal readers … Continue reading →

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Emacs 27.1 Coming

Posted on 2019-11-24 by jcs

Eli Zaretskii has issued what amounts to a last call for new features to appear in Emacs 27.1. He’s planning to create an Emacs-27 release branch in about a week. After that, only bug fixes for the release will be … Continue reading →

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Chris Wellons on PRNGs

Posted on 2019-11-22 by jcs

I’ve long been an admirer of Chris Wellons’ work and have written about him many times. I almost always learn something new and useful from his blog posts so of course I take notice when he publishes something new. His … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 62: Magit Forge

Posted on 2019-11-19 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has posted another great video in his Using Emacs Series. This video takes a look at Magit Forge. It’s available from Melpa and is easy to install. Zamansky shows how easy in the video. Once installed, it just … Continue reading →

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Generating Technical Documents with Org-mode

Posted on 2019-11-17 by jcs

Mike Hamrick has put up an excellent video on using Emacs and Org-mode to publish nice looking and consistent technical documents. In preparing a document, Hamrick uses literate programming and—although he doesn’t mention it—reproducible research techniques. That’s important, because as … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 61: Org-msg

Posted on 2019-11-16 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has another video up in his Using Emacs Series. This time he looks at writing mu4e emails in Org-mode. Like me, he mostly wants to send plain text emails but sometimes he’d like to send tables, source code, … Continue reading →

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Generating Gantt Charts with Org-mode

Posted on 2019-11-15 by jcs

Perhaps because I’ve always worked for smaller organizations, I’ve never had to deal with Gantt charts. I’ve always considered them yet another management fad but that may be due to ignorant prejudice. In any event, lots of people use them … Continue reading →

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Emacs Resources for Writers

Posted on 2019-11-13 by jcs

Recently, James Gill tweeted about a collection of Emacs resources for writers that he’s curated into a GitHub repository. There are two parts to the collection: Tips and examples for writing with Emacs, and Writing a book with Emacs. As … Continue reading →

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Remote Debugging With Tramp

Posted on 2019-11-12 by jcs

Matt Ray gave a very nice presentation to EmacsConf 2019 on Interactive Remote Debugging and Development with TRAMP Mode. One of the frequent complaints about Emacs is that it’s hard to work with remote files. Mostly that’s because the person … Continue reading →

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