Tag Archives: Emacs

Snippets With Regular Expressions

Posted on 2026-02-10 by jcs

It’s been years since I wrote about Gilles Castel and his astounding ability to take LaTeX notes so fast that he was able to keep up with the the instructor in his Mathematics classes. Sadly, Castel died in 2022 but … Continue reading →

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Casual For Registers, Rectangles, And Windows

Posted on 2026-02-09 by jcs

As you probably know, I’m a big fan of Charles Choi’s Casual Suite. His latest offering deals with registers, rectangles, and windows. Much as I like the Casual Suite, I won’t be using these latest menus. Choi, as usual, is … Continue reading →

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Toggling Between Let and Let*

Posted on 2026-02-08 by jcs

If you aren’t an Elisp programmer—or at least some sort of Lisp programmer—this post won’t make much sense to you. If you do write in Elisp/Lisp, it tells you how to sand down a tiny bump in your workflow. It … Continue reading →

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Declarative, Reproducible Emacs

Posted on 2026-02-07 by jcs

Jacob Boxerman has a nice video and related blog post about his approach to configuring Emacs in a declarative and reproducible way. By “reproducible” he means that if he installs his init.el on a new system, he gets the exact … Continue reading →

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Org Capture From Anywhere

Posted on 2026-02-06 by jcs

Just a quickie today. Jack Baty has a short post on how he enables Org capture from anywhere on his system. He does pretty much what I do except that I use yequake instead of his custom script. Yequake probably … Continue reading →

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How Punchagan Lost His Elfeed Database

Posted on 2026-02-03 by jcs

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how Punchagan over at NOETIC NOUGHT started saving his Elfeed database after he lost it in a system crash. At the time, Punchagan didn’t know exactly what happened, only that the system … Continue reading →

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Exporting From Org To Docx

Posted on 2026-02-02 by jcs

JR over at The Art Of Not Asking Why has a useful post on exporting an Org document to Docx. I’ve written about this before [1, 2, 3] and you might wonder why. After all, you can simply export directly … Continue reading →

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Extracting Data From Journelly Entries

Posted on 2026-01-30 by jcs

As you all know, I am always writing about how much I like and use Journelly. One of the things that I always say is that since Journelly saves it data as an Org mode file—or, if you prefer, as … Continue reading →

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Return Of The Prodigal Son

Posted on 2026-01-29 by jcs

Well, not really prodigal, but the return—nonetheless—of a son assumed lost. Michał Sapka has a blog post about his return to Emacs. A while ago, Sapka left Emacs for Vim and the shell. He liked them but realized that Emacs … Continue reading →

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Gruber On File Saving Ease

Posted on 2026-01-27 by jcs

John Gruber, over at Daring Fireball has a post, Untitled Document Syndrome, that makes two points of interest to Irreal readers. The first involves the difficulty of initially saving what he calls “untitled documents”. He’s writing about macOS, of course, … Continue reading →

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