Tag Archives: Emacs

Sacha Chua has a really nice post on dictating into Emacs. She starts by quoting Matt Weber on how he writes better than he speaks. Chua can relate and so can I. We both feel the same way. As I’ve … Continue reading →

As you all know by now, I really hate being spied on by web sites and other on-line entities. I’m pretty sure this misbehavior won’t be legal much longer but I’m equally sure that the on-line advertising industry won’t go … Continue reading →

Randy Ridenour has an interesting post about debugging your init file. The main problem, he says, is that he sometimes makes a change that results in unbalanced parentheses. Often he doesn’t discover this until the next time he reboots Emacs, … Continue reading →

Years ago when I first starting using Emacs seriously, one of my go to sites for inspiration and ideas was Dirk-Jan C. Binnema’s EMACS-FU. He always had good ideas, not the least of which is the wonderful email client mu4e … Continue reading →

Over at techhub.social, lispwizard has a short post (or whatever techhub.social calls them) on saving window configurations to registers. He notes how easy it is to save multiple configurations and switch between them on the fly. Saving window configurations and … Continue reading →

Yesterday I wrote about James Cherti’s Org-ibullets package. Today I’m writing about another package that he announced at essentially the same time: wizard.el. It’s a package of some carefully written Emacs functions dealing mostly with editing and navigation. Cherti describes … Continue reading →

The ever-officious minions have staged what they’re calling an intervention. They told me that I’ve milked this illness shtick long enough and that it was time to get back to work. They were unmoved by my protestations that I was … Continue reading →

I’m still under the weather: mostly I’ve been sleeping non-stop except for meals and bathroom breaks. That means that I’m still not up to producing a post with the usual Irreal wit and charm1. I did have this post from … Continue reading →

The topic that wouldn’t die. It started with a quick post on Sacha’s solution to a problem posed by David Pape. I thought it was a nice solution but then 0-_-0_ pointed out that abo-abo had already solved this problem … Continue reading →