Tag Archives: Emacs

Inbox Zero, Inbox Infinity

Posted on 2019-01-13 by jcs

Karl Voit has an interesting post on email management and the concepts of inbox zero and inbox infinity. You probably already know about inbox zero. It’s the concept that you don’t let emails pile up in your inbox. You read … Continue reading →

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Bozhidar Batsov’s Year End Emacs Review

Posted on 2019-01-12 by jcs

In my continued atonement for failing to produce a year end Emacs review, here’s an offering from Bozhidar Batsov. Batsov has done a lot of interesting work—including Prelude, CIDER, and Projectile—so his take on things is worth noting. Oddly, he … Continue reading →

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Anaconda and Emacs

Posted on 2019-01-09 by jcs

Just a quickie for today. I keep seeing questions about how to use Emacs with Python. Here’s a short post by Devji Chhanga that gives a step-by-step installation process for integrating Anaconda and Emacs. Note that Chhanga’s post has a … Continue reading →

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Second Pretest for Emacs 26.2

Posted on 2019-01-08 by jcs

Nicolas Petton writes that the emacs-26.1.91, the second pretest for emacs 26.2, is out. I compiled and installed it last night and am using it as my working Emacs. I have less than a day’s experience with it so far … Continue reading →

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Making Poet

Posted on 2019-01-07 by jcs

In a nice coda to my recent recent post on the Poet Theme, Kunal Bhalla has published a post, Making Poet, an Emacs theme, on how he developed the theme and added monochrome and dark versions of it. Because he … Continue reading →

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Generating RSS with Org-mode

Posted on 2019-01-05 by jcs

In my Blogging with Emacs Only post, I noted that the solution under discussion didn’t include a way of generating an RSS feed. Details like that are one of the reasons that solutions involving blogging frameworks like Hugo make a … Continue reading →

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Multiline Fontification

Posted on 2019-01-04 by jcs

The invaluable fuco1 solves a problem that I’ve stumbled upon in the past: how can you make org-mode emphasis markup—things like italics, bold, etc.—span more than two lines1. I almost never need to do this so I’ve spent zero thought … Continue reading →

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John Weigley on Magit

Posted on 2019-01-03 by jcs

John Weigley has an excellent video on using Magit. It’s very comprehensive and the content is quite dense so you may want to watch it more than once. He covers the usual easy commands that everybody uses but also some … Continue reading →

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Blogging with Emacs Only

Posted on 2019-01-02 by jcs

As most of you know, I enjoy reading about other bloggers’ workflows. I especially like workflows that use only Emacs and Org mode without any third-party tools. In Yesterday’s post, I promised to write about Diego Vicente’s Emacs-only blogging workflow. … Continue reading →

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Diego Vicente’s 2018 Wrapup

Posted on 2019-01-01 by jcs

It’s a new year and thumbing through the Emacs Blogger Manual I see that I’m supposed to offer a year end perspective on my Emacs use. The problem is that after more than a decade of Emacs use, my configuration … Continue reading →

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