Tag Archives: Emacs

The Pros and Cons of Emacs

Posted on 2019-07-27 by jcs

Darwin Wu has an interesting post on the pros and cons of Emacs. I disagree with some of his conclusions but he does a good job of presenting a balanced view. As for the disagreements, I don’t say I’m right … Continue reading →

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An Org/Hugo Workflow for Blogging

Posted on 2019-07-26 by jcs

Lots of bloggers are electing to generate static sites instead of relying on a CMS like Blogger or WordPress. It’s an attractive option and one that I would probably pursue if I didn’t have so much invested in WordPress. All … Continue reading →

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The Holy War

Posted on 2019-07-24 by jcs

After writing yesterday’s post on Vim vs. Emacs, I serendipitously saw a tweet pointing at the Wikipedia article on the Editor War. It describes our holiest of holy wars and gives a pretty thorough analysis of both sides’ views. The … Continue reading →

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Vim vs. Emacs

Posted on 2019-07-23 by jcs

One of our longest standing holy wars is Emacs versus Vim. I’ve been around long enough that I’ve seen all the jokes and memes. Seen them over and over again, in fact. At this point, I doubt anyone is even … Continue reading →

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Making The Results Block Executable

Posted on 2019-07-21 by jcs

Over at the Emacs Stack Exchange, shackra asks how he can make the RESULTS block of an Org babel SRC block executable by the shell. In other words, he wants to build a shell script in one block and be … Continue reading →

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The Speed of Offlineimap vs. Mbsync

Posted on 2019-07-19 by jcs

One of the problems faced by those of us who have moved our email operations into Emacs is how to download the emails from the Imap server. There are two popular solutions: offlineimap and mbsync. Offlineimap is written in Python … Continue reading →

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Text Based Email Clients

Posted on 2019-07-17 by jcs

Many people can’t imagine life without a shiny, GUI-based email client. The idea of using a text based client would never occur to them and some probably don’t even know there are such things. Others of us don’t want to … Continue reading →

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Update to Writing a Thesis With Org Mode

Posted on 2019-07-16 by jcs

Last year I wrote about Daniel Gomez’s post on writing a PhD thesis with Org-mode. Gomez’s post was an excellent exposition of the workflow that he used to write his thesis using Org. One of the most useful features was … Continue reading →

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Is Emacs an Editor Framework?

Posted on 2019-07-15 by jcs

Over at the Emacs sub-reddit, yep808 says that he thinks of Emacs not as an editor but as an editor framework that allows you to build the editor you really want. He asks if others share this view. It is, … Continue reading →

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Long Lines in Emacs

Posted on 2019-07-14 by jcs

One of the (legitimate) complaints about Emacs is that it doesn’t do very well with excessively long lines. Happily, this isn’t a problem for me. I write my blog posts with visual line mode enabled and fill disabled so Emacs … Continue reading →

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