Tag Archives: Emacs

Refiling in Org Mode

Posted on 2018-11-08 by jcs

Longtime Irreal readers may remember my post on Aaron Bieber’s talk on moving from Vim to Emacs that he gave to the Boston Vim Meetup back in 2015. Since then, I’ve mentioned him in a few other posts. The other … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 53: Emailing Your Agenda

Posted on 2018-11-03 by jcs

Mike Zamansky is back with another video in his Using Emacs Series. This time it’s about mailing himself a copy of his current Org agenda. I found this video useful for a couple of reasons. First, he discusses the Org … Continue reading →

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Programmatic Capitalization

Posted on 2018-11-01 by jcs

Xah Lee, as most of you know, is fanatical about keyboard ergonomics. He’s always measuring, experimenting, and looking for ways to make his typing easier and more ergonomic. He especially tries to avoid key chording. Someone recently tweeted a pointer … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 52: Eyebrowse

Posted on 2018-10-31 by jcs

Mike Zamansky is back with the latest edition of Using Emacs. This time the video is about the eyebrowse package and how he uses it to easily switch between window configurations as he moves from task to task. I’ve been … Continue reading →

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Emacs Security

Posted on 2018-10-29 by jcs

If you follow the Emacs-Devel list, even in a desultory way, you probably noticed the long thread going back to June concerning Emacs’ insecure usage of TLS and what it means for Emacs users. LWN.net has a nice article that … Continue reading →

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Emacs Doctor

Posted on 2018-10-28 by jcs

From fuco1, a little bit of humor to top off your weekend: #emacs Contrary to popular belief M-x doctor isn't so helpful all the timehttps://t.co/NvOeYmo3Ew — Matus Goljer (@Fuco1337) October 28, 2018

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Using Emacs 51

Posted on 2018-10-25 by jcs

Mike Zamansky had a few minutes free in his busy fall schedule so he recorded and posted another video in his Using Emacs series. This time he discusses how he uses Org Mode in his day-to-day work. If you’ve been … Continue reading →

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Ancient Emacs Code

Posted on 2018-10-24 by jcs

In response to my two posts concerning Emacs history, Lars Brinkhoff wrote me with a pointer to a wonderful repository holding the code to not only early Emacs but also such goodies as ZWEI and Zmacs and all the way … Continue reading →

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EmacsCast #6

Posted on 2018-10-23 by jcs

Rakhim Davletkaliyev is back with another Emacs podcast. This episode is mostly about trying to achieve software minimalism and how he leverages Emacs to do that. Towards the beginning he has an interesting vignette on how Emacs and Org mode … Continue reading →

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ZWEI

Posted on 2018-10-22 by jcs

Edward Coffin has a post that’s a nice companion to yesterday’s Irreal post on the evolution of Elisp. After much effort he managed to track down a copy of Dan Weinreb’s undergraduate thesis on the ZWEI editor and has posted … Continue reading →

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