Tag Archives: Emacs

Light or Dark

Posted on 2019-06-24 by jcs

I’ve long been a member of the much maligned minority who strongly prefer a light theme for Emacs and, for that matter, everything else too. All the cool kids have dark themes, some even using grotesque combinations like blue on … Continue reading →

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Working With Google Cloud Compute Instances in Emacs

Posted on 2019-06-23 by jcs

If you work with Google Cloud Compute Instances, Jack Rusher has an excellent tip in the form of a GitHub Gist for you. It turns out that Tramp connection methods are table driven and you can easily add a new … Continue reading →

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Emacs! In the New York Times!

Posted on 2019-06-21 by jcs

Paul Ford, co-founder and chief executive of Postlight, has a delightful paean to open source in The New York Times Magazine. In the article, Letter of Recommendation: Bug Fixes, Fords talks about the joys of open source and the pleasures … Continue reading →

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Org List Repair

Posted on 2019-06-20 by jcs

Tim Visher, who used to publish the much-missed VimGolf in Emacs videos, just tweeted a useful tip: OMG I have been looking for #emacs `org-list-repair` _forever!_ https://t.co/QMeulfO4KD (sorry if the link breaks, I can’t figure out to get a stable … Continue reading →

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Emacs Bug Reporting Workflow

Posted on 2019-06-19 by jcs

Bhavin Gandhi has a very nice and useful post on how to report and deal with Emacs bugs. He explains the process and mentions many things I didn’t know. For example, you can help with the bug processing simply by … Continue reading →

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Using Org-mode to Make Beautiful Documents

Posted on 2019-06-18 by jcs

Mats Tage Axelsson has a short introduction to making beautiful documents with Org-mode. None of this will be news to regular Irreal readers who are used to me (all too) frequently writing about it. Axelsson shows the basic format of … Continue reading →

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Orgzly

Posted on 2019-06-17 by jcs

In my Portable Operating System post and its comments, I bemoaned the lack of an Emacs port to iOS/ipadOS or at least to the iPad. If I had that, I’d probably still use my MacBook Pro at home but I’d, … Continue reading →

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Notmuch For Email

Posted on 2019-06-15 by jcs

As regular readers know, I am a very happy user of mu/mu4e to handle my email. It lets me handle email completely from within Emacs and it happily lives side-by-side with Apple’s mail app so I can read and write … Continue reading →

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Emacs 26.2.90

Posted on 2019-06-14 by jcs

Nicolas Petton writes that the first pretest of Emacs 26.3, 26.2.90, is available for download and testing. If you don’t mind living just a little bit on the edge, download and help with the testing. As always, thanks to John, … Continue reading →

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Org 9.2.4 Is Released

Posted on 2019-06-12 by jcs

Bastien Guerry tweets that Org-mode has a new release. #emacs #orgmode 9.2.4, a bugfix release, is out. Enjoy! — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) June 11, 2019 As usual, thanks to Bastien, Nicolas, and the others for all the work they do … Continue reading →

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