Tag Archives: Emacs

Literature Management with Emacs

Posted on 2019-04-26 by jcs

I saw a query that had a link to a post from a couple of years ago that I missed at the time. It’s by Anand Iyer who is—or, perhaps, was—a graduate student and therefore is constantly reading papers. When … Continue reading →

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The Power of Vanilla Emacs

Posted on 2019-04-22 by jcs

There’s an interesting blog post by bendersteed that discusses the power of vanilla Emacs. Emacs, he says, has a lot of useful packages but we shouldn’t underestimate the power of built-in commands that have nearly the same function. He notes, … Continue reading →

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The Dream Draws Nearer

Posted on 2019-04-21 by jcs

If you’re a hardcore Emacser or Lisper, you’ve probably always drooled over the famous space-cadet keyboard. Just think, you’d have keys for all four bucky bits, not to mention a multitude of other keys with no apparent use if you … Continue reading →

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Emacs Future History

Posted on 2019-04-19 by jcs

I was reading this post on some Ivy hacks and it reminded me of another post that I’ve been meaning to comment on. Over at the CollBox blog, Cameron Desautels writes about the Emacs concept of future history. The idea … Continue reading →

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Refactoring Prose With Org Mode

Posted on 2019-04-18 by jcs

Edmund Jorgensen over at Edmund’s technical ramblings has a really excellent post on leveraging Org mode in a nontrivial way for writing prose. Jorgensen is a software developer by day and a novelist by night. He’s published two novels and … Continue reading →

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EmacsCast: The Video

Posted on 2019-04-17 by jcs

Rakhim Davletkaliyev, whose EmacsCast podcast I’ve written about many times, has published a video on his Emacs configuration and workflow. As you know by now, I always enjoy seeing how others use Emacs and most often learn something new or … Continue reading →

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Mu/mu4e 1.2 Available

Posted on 2019-04-14 by jcs

If you’re a mu/mu4e user, there’s good news. Version 1.2 has been released. It’s mainly a bug release but there are a handful of new features, which you can read about here. I’ve been using it for the last few … Continue reading →

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Emacs 26.2 Has Been Released

Posted on 2019-04-13 by jcs

It’s official. Emacs version 26.2 is out and available at the usual places. I compiled and installed it on my Macs without any problems using the usual spell: configure –with-ns CFLAGS=”-g3 -O2 -I /usr/local/include/libxml2″ make make install make install-info sudo … Continue reading →

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The Recentering Sequence

Posted on 2019-04-12 by jcs

Maybe the Emacs developers knew what they were talking about after all. A couple of years I discovered that you can control the sequence of positions to which recenter-top-bottom will move the current line. As I wrote at the time, … Continue reading →

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Git and Plain Text for Writers

Posted on 2019-04-10 by jcs

Bastien tweets a pointer to an interesting article on using Git for writing: Interesting read on using #git for #writers : https://t.co/1qQe481zK7 … Not just via the @AtomEditor but also GNU #emacs, as explored here https://t.co/4qNCIyP5LU and discussed here https://t.co/d3alOHxudI … Continue reading →

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