Tag Archives: Emacs

Using Multiple-Cursors to Kill Multiple Processes

Posted on 2018-09-25 by jcs

I came across this tip on reddit the other day. It’s probably not something you’ll use every day but it can come in handy when you have a lot of processes in your list-processes output and want to kill a … Continue reading →

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Another “How Did I Not Know This?”

Posted on 2018-09-24 by jcs

I’ve been using Emacs for over a decade and like all of us, I’m still learning things I didn’t know about it. Still, this really surprised me. Sure, maybe I don’t know about some obscure command or key binding but … Continue reading →

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Recording Your Org Mode Activity

Posted on 2018-09-23 by jcs

Over at Infin there’s a nice post on recording Org mode activity. What that means is logging all the little administrative steps you take with your agenda such as marking an item done, changing its state, adding a note, and … Continue reading →

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Clean Screen Writing

Posted on 2018-09-22 by jcs

There’s a certain type of writer—mostly prose writers, I’d guess, but others too—who don’t want to be distracted by extraneous information from their editor. They don’t want to see the name of the file they’re editing, what line they’re on, … Continue reading →

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Why You Should Buy Into the Emacs Platform

Posted on 2018-09-20 by jcs

I’ve been seeing a lot of references to Christoffer Stjernlöf’s (slightly old) post on Two Wrong about Why You Should Buy Into the Emacs Platform. It seems to me to offer a nice coda to my two posts on ancient … Continue reading →

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Finding Happiness with an Ancient Editor

Posted on 2018-09-18 by jcs

Apropos of yesterday’s post on learning ancient editors, tareefdev has a post on the Emacs subreddit on why and how he moved from one of those “modern” electron-based editors to Emacs. His problem was a simple one: he had a … Continue reading →

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Why Learn Those Ancient Editors?

Posted on 2018-09-17 by jcs

I went back and forth over whether I should embed the following tweet or just extract the quote from it. My remarks are about its contents and not the tweeter, who I don’t know and is probably a fine person … Continue reading →

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Org Capture

Posted on 2018-09-15 by jcs

I’ve seen some questions lately asking if it’s worthwhile to learn Org mode. Regular readers will have no doubt as to my answer but I stumbled across a nice post from Charles Cave on how he uses Org capture, templates, … Continue reading →

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Beorg Review

Posted on 2018-09-13 by jcs

One of the frustrations for Org mode users is getting access to their data on mobile devices. The situation is a little better in the Android world, where one can run Emacs on their phones but on iOS the choices … Continue reading →

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Emacs ImageMagick Interface

Posted on 2018-09-12 by jcs

If you’re in the intersection of Emacs and ImageMagick users, Blimp may interest you. It’s an Emacs interface to the ImageMagick commands. Take a look at the README on GitHub to see how it works and what it can do. … Continue reading →

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