Tag Archives: Emacs

More On Number Ranges

Posted on 2026-10-08 by jcs

In a nice coda to yesterday’s post on Sacha Chua’s solution for entering number ranges, 0-_-0_ points out that a solution already exists. That solution is abo-abo’s tiny library. I vaguely remember seeing tiny when abo-abo released it 13 years … Continue reading →

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Inserting Number Ranges As A List

Posted on 2026-10-07 by jcs

The incomparable Sacha Chua has a very nice solution to a problem posed by David Pape: how can we enter a range of numbers as list of distinct numbers in Emacs? Pape’s specific problem was entering the numbers of error … Continue reading →

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The Power Of Plain Text

Posted on 2026-10-06 by jcs

Over at the Dead Parrot BBS, nickb has an excellent post extolling the power of plain text. It’s a notion that’s familiar to all us Emacs users and even more so to Org users. We Org users (or more generally … Continue reading →

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The Future Of Emacs

Posted on 2026-10-05 by jcs

Chris Maiorana asks a provocative question: What’s the future of Emacs? He asks that question in the context of assuming that Emacs will continue to exist for any timeline that matters to us. But how, he asks, will we use … Continue reading →

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Nested Emacs Frames

Posted on 2026-10-04 by jcs

Just a quick offering today on an informative post from Ankit Gadiya about unwanted nested frames in Emacs. The TL;DR is that Gadiya runs Ghostel as his Emacs shell in TUI and demon mode. That works well but he has … Continue reading →

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Persisting Text Scale

Posted on 2026-10-03 by jcs

As we all discover eventually, age is going to be accompanied by declining eyesight. If you make your living writing and coding, this is going to result in some discomfort as it becomes harder and harder to read the text … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: True Believers

Posted on 2026-10-02 by jcs

There are a couple of threads on the Emacs Devel mailing list that, zombie like, refuse to die. They’re essentially the same. One, entitled “ethically” running proprietary code? is an endless discussion of what Emacs should do if a package … Continue reading →

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Remember Remember Mode?

Posted on 2026-09-30 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, BBSnek writes about discovering remember mode. It’s been around for a long time. I remember using it before Org mode. Indeed, I still use Ctrl+c r to invoke org-capture because that was what I was … Continue reading →

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Aquí Location Finder

Posted on 2026-09-29 by jcs

Charles Choi has been writing a bunch of nice little apps lately—more than I can cover. His latest, Aquí, is sort of a niche application but is potentially useful for more than just its intended use. The back story is … Continue reading →

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A Nice Example Of An Embark Action

Posted on 2026-09-28 by jcs

As I wrote back in July, although I’ve had Embark installed for some time, I’ve only just begun to really use it. Most of my uses involve following a link (of any type) and acting on a group of files, … Continue reading →

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