Tag Archives: Emacs

Mu4e-conversation

Posted on 2018-06-14 by jcs

As I’ve said before, I’m not a fan of threading in emails. That’s mainly because it’s not that useful for the type of emails I deal with but I’m aware that most people have different workflows and probably do like … Continue reading →

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Configuring Wanderlust

Posted on 2018-06-13 by jcs

It was a great day for me when I finally got mu4e working and moved my email into Emacs. Emacsers who want to live in Emacs as much as possible will sooner or later look for a way of handling … Continue reading →

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A Complete Computing Environment

Posted on 2018-06-12 by jcs

Irreal oldtimers know that I consider Emacs a sort of light-weight Lisp Machine and that I can sometimes be—ahem—obsessive about it. Recently, I came across a series of posts that reveal me to be a mere tyro in exploiting Emacs … Continue reading →

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Format$

Posted on 2018-06-11 by jcs

The other day, I wrote about John Kitchin’s experiment with bringing f-strings to Elisp. In the comments, Noonian Atall pointed to Alphapapa’s format$ macro that does the same sort of thing. I just saw a reddit post from alphapappa announcing … Continue reading →

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Org Mode is Awesome

Posted on 2018-06-10 by jcs

I’ve written about John Kitchin’s Org mode is awesome video before (back in 2014) but recently Xah Lee tweeted about it and I watched it again. It’s a great video and worth mentioning again for anyone who hasn’t already seen … Continue reading →

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Mastering Emacs on 26.1

Posted on 2018-06-09 by jcs

Most everyone knows that you should read the NEWS file when you install a new version of Emacs. There is always a lot of new functionality and other changes that you almost certainly don’t know about. If you’re like me, … Continue reading →

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Emacs for Vim Users

Posted on 2018-06-08 by jcs

As I’ve said before, engineers may switch between Emacs and Vim but they seldom switch from Emacs or Vim to another editor. Sure, you see folks try out the newest shiny thing—VS Code is the latest example—but somehow they always … Continue reading →

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A Thesaurus for Emacs

Posted on 2018-06-03 by jcs

If you do your writing with Emacs rather than a “word processor,” you may have found yourself wanting an easy-to-use thesaurus that is integrated with Emacs. Even if you subscribe to John McPhee’s Draft #4 advice and mostly use a … Continue reading →

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Emacs 26, Threads, and Generators

Posted on 2018-06-02 by jcs

One of the things that a lot of people are exited about in Emacs 26 is the introduction of basic threading. Another, less mentioned, feature is generators. The excellent Chris Wellons has a must-read post that talks about both of … Continue reading →

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Introduction to EWW

Posted on 2018-05-31 by jcs

I’ve been making a point of trying to use the Emacs Web Wowser (eww) when it makes sense. As much as I’d love to move browsing into Emacs—and thus realize my goal of virtually never leaving it—sadly eww can’t replace … Continue reading →

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