Tag Archives: Emacs

The Emacs Writing Experience: Ridenour

Posted on 2025-08-05 by jcs

This is another post about the Emacs Carnival on Writing. This time it concerns a contribution by Randy Ridenour, a Philosophy Professor at Oklahoma Baptist University. I especially like stories like his because he’s a non-technical user who nevertheless made … Continue reading →

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Org Workbench

Posted on 2025-08-03 by jcs

I’ve been fascinated with the Zettelkasten idea ever since i read Sönke Ahrens’ book How To Take Smart Notes. I just came across a new project by Yibie called org-workbench that marries the idea of a Zettelkasten card to all … Continue reading →

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There’s A New Carnival In Town

Posted on 2025-08-02 by jcs

After the really great July Emacs Carnival on the writing experience hosted by Greg Newman, Jeremy Friesen has stepped up to host the August carnival. This month the subject is “The Emacs Elevator Pitch”. The idea is that you have … Continue reading →

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More From Casual

Posted on 2025-07-31 by jcs

Charles Choi has announced some upgrades to his Casual Suite. He’s added two new interfaces along with the appropriate menus: Compile for compilation-mode and grep-mode Elisp for emacs-lisp-mode He also makes explicit the support for an Eshell interface that he … Continue reading →

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Emacs Carnival Writing Experience: Choi

Posted on 2025-07-30 by jcs

As you all know, I’m really enjoying Greg Newman’s Emacs Carnival: Writing Experience blog posts by various Emacs users who do their (non-code) writing with Emacs. I’ve commented on several of them and today I want to comment on another. … Continue reading →

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Eric Fraga’s Emacs Writing Carnival Entry

Posted on 2025-07-29 by jcs

I’ve been a long time fan of Eric Fraga’s quiet work in the Emacs sphere. He an academic who, as far as I know, doesn’t work directly on Emacs development but is nevertheless active in the community making suggestions and … Continue reading →

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The Emacs Cat’s Org Configuration

Posted on 2025-07-28 by jcs

The Emacs Cat, like me, is a heavy Org mode user. He uses it for note taking, maintaining his personal knowledge base, agenda management, and blogging. He recently decided to share his org mode configuration. It’s worth taking a look … Continue reading →

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Writing With Emacs: Two Out Of Three Ain’t Bad

Posted on 2025-07-27 by jcs

Ross Baker, channeling the late, great Meatloaf, has a contribution to Greg Newman’s Emacs Carnival on writing with Emacs entitled Writing in Emacs: two out of three ain’t bad. The title comes from the three ways that Baker writes: Alone … Continue reading →

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Ramírez’s Decade With Org Mode

Posted on 2025-07-26 by jcs

As you all know, I’m a huge Org Mode fan but Álvaro Ramírez’s use and customization of it dwarfs mine. Yesterday, I wrote about how Ramírez was an expert at finding solutions to small problems and that those solutions can … Continue reading →

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Patching A Homebrew Emacs

Posted on 2025-07-25 by jcs

Álvaro Ramírez is a genius at what might be called programming at the edges. By that I mean he’s good a finding and solving small problems that can negatively effect our workflows. A great example of that is his dwim-shell-command … Continue reading →

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