Tag Archives: Emacs

Zamansky 50: Presentations

Posted on 2018-07-01 by jcs

Mike Zamansky is getting ready to give a presentation at a professional conference. As always, this means preparing a slide deck and Zamansky is faced with deciding how to do it. In the past, he’s described reveal.js as his go … Continue reading →

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The Emacs Commune

Posted on 2018-06-29 by jcs

Someone posted a chapter from Sam Williams’ book Free as in Freedom (online here), that discusses the early history of Emacs. The chapter, The Emacs Commune, is full of things I didn’t know about how Emacs evolved from the TECO … Continue reading →

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An Emacs Interface to the macOS System Dictionary

Posted on 2018-06-27 by jcs

As I’ve said many times, I consider abo-abo’s define-word one of my most useful packages. I use it several times a day. If you’re looking for a dictionary that ties in seamlessly with Emacs, you should take a look at … Continue reading →

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Literate Programming Using Org Babel

Posted on 2018-06-26 by jcs

Gregory Stein has an excellent post on Literate Programming with Org-Mode. Despite the title, it’s really more about leveraging Org Babel to create literate documents that contain notes, code, and results. This is, of course, the same area that Howard … Continue reading →

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Howard Abrams on Capturing Data to the Current Task

Posted on 2018-06-25 by jcs

Howard Abrams has a very nice post in which he talks about how he uses Org capture in his workflow. Most of us are familiar with Org capture and the use of templates to store data in some Org file. … Continue reading →

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Xah Lee on Frames vs. Window in Emacs

Posted on 2018-06-23 by jcs

Xah Lee has an interesting post that I hadn’t seen before even though it’s originally from 2014 (since updated) and mentions a post of mine. The post is a discussion of whether it’s better to have a single large Emacs … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 49: Mu4e-conversation

Posted on 2018-06-22 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has another video in his Using Emacs Series up. This time he talks about mu4e-conversation, which I wrote about previously. Mu4e-conversation is a package that makes reading email threads easier. It has two modes, (1) linear mode that … Continue reading →

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Xah Lee on Abbrev Mode

Posted on 2018-06-20 by jcs

Xah Lee has a nice video on abbrev mode that shows you a couple of ways to use the facility. Abbrev-mode is built in so you don’t have to install any packages: you can just start using it. Lee covers … Continue reading →

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Internationalization of Text Strings with Emacs

Posted on 2018-06-19 by jcs

I’ve had this topic in my blog queue for a couple of weeks but I noticed literally scores of tweets pointing to the post in question. That was enough to make me forego my own post on the subject but … Continue reading →

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Line Numbers in Emacs 26.1

Posted on 2018-06-17 by jcs

As you’ve probably heard, Emacs 26.1 has replaced the old linum-mode with a faster and less cluttered implementation. I almost never need or want line numbers so they’re normally turned off but for the occasional times when they’re useful, I … Continue reading →

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