Tag Archives: Emacs

The Portable Operating System

Posted on 2019-06-11 by jcs

Unix is often credited with being the first portable operating system because it was written in a higher level language and could relatively easily be ported to new machines. That portability changed everything. But this post isn’t about Unix; it’s … Continue reading →

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Unicode Escape Sequences in Emacs Strings

Posted on 2019-06-10 by jcs

Xah Lee recently tweeted out a reference to one of his old pages on Emacs Lisp. This one considers specifying Unicode escape sequences in Emacs strings. It’s a handy guide and well worth giving a look. Doubtless, you could find … Continue reading →

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Why Emacs

Posted on 2019-06-09 by jcs

Saurabh Kukade is planning a series on configuring Emacs. His introductory post discusses why he thinks Emacs is so cool. Most bloggers who write about Emacs end up posting something like that, of course, but I always enjoy reading why … Continue reading →

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Correcting Org Tags

Posted on 2019-06-07 by jcs

A couple of days ago, I was adding some item to my journal—which is really my engineering note book—and when my capture template prompted me for a tag and I started to type it in, I noticed that in the … Continue reading →

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Revisiting Abrams’ Capture Techniques

Posted on 2019-06-05 by jcs

A year ago, I wrote about Howard Abrams’ post on Capturing Content for Emacs. I just saw a current reference to the post and reread it. It’s a really great article and worth mentioning again in case you missed it. … Continue reading →

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Writing Academic Papers

Posted on 2019-06-04 by jcs

Jonathan Bennett has another post up in his Year of Emacs series. This one is about writing academic papers. Bennett is in the humanities but still uses Emacs and Org-mode to write his papers. I’m always interested in posts like … Continue reading →

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Notion

Posted on 2019-06-03 by jcs

Ali Abdaal is a Junior Doctor (sort of like a Resident in the US) practicing in Cambridge, UK. He’s also a YouTuber producing videos on productivity, efficient study habits, tech reviews, and life as a Junior Doctor. I’ve been following … Continue reading →

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Hidden Gems #4: TODOs

Posted on 2019-05-31 by jcs

Cheong Yiufung has another great post up in his Org-mode Hidden Gems series. The latest post takes a look at Org-mode TODO functionality. As usual, I learned some new things proving again that the “hidden gems” tag is appropriate, at … Continue reading →

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A Year of Emacs

Posted on 2019-05-29 by jcs

Jonathan Bennett has an interesting project underway. He’s a longtime Vim user whose evolving needs led him to Emacs. At first, he used Spacemacs but he had problems with its speed and had difficulties configuring it. So he moved on … Continue reading →

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More on Multics Emacs

Posted on 2019-05-27 by jcs

Back in January, I wrote about Bernard Greenberg’s history of Emacs on the Multics system. I just found a set of contemporaneous notes on the first 110 days of Multics Emacs’ development. What’s amazing is how quickly they were able … Continue reading →

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