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What Has Emacs Replaced Your Workflow

I always think of my Emacs configuration as a Japanese garden: it’s always underway but never reaches perfection. The other day, I saw this tweet: What has emacs replaced in your life? https://t.co/5adbsfy8bz #emacs — /r/Emacs (@EmacsReddit) February 11, 2018 … Continue reading

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Zamansky 41: Pandoc

Mike Zamansky has the latest video in his Using Emacs Series up. This time it’s about leveraging Pandoc to deal with document interchange. I’ve written about Pandoc before but usually in the context of converting an Org document to some … Continue reading

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Org-Noter

I’ve been happily using Interleave to takes notes while reading PDFs ever since I read about it in Piotr Limanowski’s excellent post on Reading for Programmers. It’s a great way to take notes that are synchronized with the PDF. Gonçalo … Continue reading

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Emacs Tweaks from Other Editors

Ruben Berenguel has a useful post on Emacs tweaks from other editors. Berenguel works at a company where virtually everyone uses a different editor and even though he’s an Emacs user, he gets to see useful features from the competition. … Continue reading

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Working with Gists in Emacs

Bill Ward has a handy post on how to manage and create Gists with Emacs. It mostly involves installing gist.el and its dependencies. After the installation, you can easily edit existing Gists or create a new one. If you publish … Continue reading

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The Advantages of Blogging for an Emacs User

I, and many others, have written thousands of words about the advantages of using Emacs for blogging. In my case, I could, if I wanted, publish Irreal and virtually never visit the site itself; I can do everything from Emacs. … Continue reading

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Mu 1.0 Problem Solved

In yesterday’s post, I wrote that I had installed the new version of mu/mu4e but that the inbox and searches were showing some deleted messages as well as the ones I was looking for. I was gearing up to dive … Continue reading

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Mu 1.0

Good news for all you mu/mu4e users: The mu/mu4e e-mail searcher and mail client have reached 1.0 — after 10 years! Rejoice — https://t.co/U5zyjtVRwI pic.twitter.com/SpehjHyfxp — djcb (@djcb) February 3, 2018 I’ve really been looking forward to the “format equals … Continue reading

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Another Take on Engineering Notebooks

As regular readers know, I’m a big fan of keeping an engineering notebook. I have an Org file named journal.org that most of my day-to-day notes go into but for larger, sustained projects I like to start a dedicated project … Continue reading

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Abo-abo

Oleh Krehel (abo-abo) is the author of many outstanding packages including the essential Ivy/Swiper/Counsel suite that revolutionizes searching. A few years ago, I wrote that when I get tired of blogging I was going to gin up some Elisp to … Continue reading

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