Tag Archives: Emacs

<t> Is Undefined

Posted on 2018-04-16 by jcs

Is anyone else seeing the error message <t> is undefined when using Emacs? Occasionally Emacs will respond to a keypress with that error in the echo area and Messages buffer. The key is otherwise discarded but pressing it again will … Continue reading →

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Update: One Down

Posted on 2018-04-15 by jcs

Those of you who read Irreal on mobile devices or who just have a heightened sense of aesthetics will be happy to know that I’ve developed a workaround for the formatting problems that I wrote about yesterday. The problem, I … Continue reading →

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Reminder and Update

Posted on 2018-04-14 by jcs

Back on March 2, I posted that org2blog was suddenly not working. I was certain that it was something my host provider was doing but that turned out to (probably) not be right. In order to push posts to WordPress, … Continue reading →

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Emacs 26.1 RC-1

Posted on 2018-04-13 by jcs

I just installed Emacs 26.1 RC-1 and am using it as my production Emacs. Well, actually I installed it last night but I wrote this last night so, “I just installed it” as I’m writing this. It’s astounding how easy … Continue reading →

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Mike Zamansky

Posted on 2018-04-12 by jcs

Regular readers know that I’m a big fan of Mike Zamansky and his Using Emacs Series of videos. If you’ve watched those videos carefully or follow his blog, you know he’s a professor at Hunter College’s School of Education where … Continue reading →

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Elisp Slime Nav

Posted on 2018-04-11 by jcs

A few months ago, I stumbled across elisp-slime-nav and decided to try it out. For some reason—lost to the mists of time—I didn’t write about it at then. That’s too bad because it’s a really useful package that anyone who … Continue reading →

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Magit Interface Walkthrough

Posted on 2018-04-09 by jcs

Jonas Bernoulli, the maintainer of Magit, has a nice post entitled A walk through the Magit interface. It discusses the most-used Magit features and how to access them through Magit’s interface. All that information is in the documentation, of course, … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 47: Magit

Posted on 2018-04-08 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has added another great video to his Using Emacs Series. This time it’s about Magit. Regular watchers of his videos have been agitating for some time for Zamansky to do a video on Magit but he resisted on … Continue reading →

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Adding an ‘s’ to Marked Text

Posted on 2018-04-07 by jcs

Jay Bosamiya has an excellent tip for adding an ‘s’, or some other character, to the end of text that has some Org mode emphasis markup added. How to ensure that you can emphasize/make verbatim/make as code/etc, even with an … Continue reading →

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An Application of Org-element

Posted on 2018-04-04 by jcs

The other day, I saw this query on the reddit Emacs subreddit. I already have solutions for this type of problem but I’m always interested in the how people use Org mode to record and report data so I followed … Continue reading →

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