Tag Archives: Emacs

Release Candidate 1 for Emacs 26.2 Is Out

Posted on 2019-03-22 by jcs

Nicolas Petton announced on the Emacs-Devel list that Emacs 26.2 RC1 is out. If you verify Nico’s signature—as you should—you’ll notice that GPG says the key has expired. As Nico explains, the key is still good but the GNU keychain … Continue reading →

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Numbering Org Table Rows

Posted on 2019-03-19 by jcs

Álvaro Ramírez tweeted a handy tip that I used to know about but had forgotten: #emacs multiple cursors + org tables = magic `mc/insert-numbers’ is bound to # when multiple cursors are active: https://t.co/Okx9sZ2TQW pic.twitter.com/WhMmKwjLMV — Alvaro Ramirez (@xenodium) March … Continue reading →

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Running Your Life With Emacs

Posted on 2019-03-18 by jcs

I’ve written a lot about how I hate leaving Emacs and find that its consistent UX and key bindings make a huge difference in the efficiency of my workflow. Not everyone agrees. Many people think I’m being overly sensitive when … Continue reading →

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EmacsCast #8: Writing

Posted on 2019-03-14 by jcs

Rakhim Davletkaliyev is back with another episode of his Emacs podcast, EmacsCast. This time he presents part one of a two-part series on writing in Emacs and Org mode. My first thought as I started to listen to the podcast … Continue reading →

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Zamansky: A Quick Review of Editors

Posted on 2019-03-09 by jcs

Mike Zamansky posted a quick review of programming editors and IDEs. It’s actually intended to be about picking a Java Editor/IDE in support of Java programming courses for teachers but it’s more generally useful. Zamansky, of course, is an Emacs … Continue reading →

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Another Org-based Writing Environment

Posted on 2019-03-07 by jcs

John Borwick was looking for a writing environment that suited him. He’d tried Scrivener and some of the other tools but they didn’t work for him. Then he saw Jay Dixit’s video that I wrote about back in 2015 and … Continue reading →

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Today I Learned…

Posted on 2019-03-05 by jcs

…about the delete-horizontal-space command (bound to Meta+\). It deletes all spaces and tabs around the point. You can delete just the white space before the point by specifying the universal argument. I learned about the command from a reddit post … Continue reading →

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Org-mode 9.2.2 is Out

Posted on 2019-03-04 by jcs

Bastien tweets that the latest Org-mode is available: #emacs #orgmode 9.2.2 is out. Enjoy! — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) March 4, 2019 After the recent problem with the agenda being broken, I decided to stop living on the bleeding edge and … Continue reading →

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Refugees

Posted on 2019-03-02 by jcs

As documented in my last two posts, the editor holy wars wage on. Meanwhile, the ed partisans that you didn’t even know existed are inviting refugees from the war to come home to the Unix standard editor. They even have … Continue reading →

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That Didn’t Take Long

Posted on 2019-03-02 by jcs

The battle is joined. Guess where emacs.dev takes you.

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