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macOS Keybindings On Cocoa Ports

In response to my post macOS Keybindings In Emacs, Paul R. Jorgensen notes that not every macOS Emacs port has the OS bindings defined. In particular, those ports based on the Mac’s Cocoa interface don’t support them. Jorgensen has his … Continue reading

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macOS Keybindings In Emacs

I periodically publish reminders that macOS uses some common Emacs editing keystrokes by default, and that You can do much better by adding other Emacs keystrokes to those that macOS will recognize. Here’s one such recent reminder. Now Bozhidar Batsov … Continue reading

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Casual Timezone

Charles Choi has another great addition to his Casual Suite. This time he helps us with the common problem of figuring out what time it is in some other place. As Choi says, the Internet makes it common to communicate … Continue reading

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Improving Keyboard-quit

Bozhidar Batsov is back with a quick tip that many of you will probably find useful. It’s an improvement to keyboard-quit or, as we all know and love it, Ctrl+g. One of Batsov’s pet peeves is that keyboard-quit doesn’t function … Continue reading

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Why Does Emacs Take So Long To Load

Over at the Emacs subreddit, EachDaySameAsLast asks the perennial question: why does Emacs take so long to load. Actually, his question is, “Why do people say Emacs takes so long to load?” He has, he says, been using Emacs since … Continue reading

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Web Browsing In Emacs

Joar Von Arndt has an interesting post on a subject that many Emacs users obsess about: how to bring Web browser functionality into Emacs. As, I’ve said many times, virtually all my tube time is either in Emacs or Safari. … Continue reading

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Adding Timestamped Notes To The LOGBOOK Drawer

Jeff Bradberry has an excellent post on adding timestamped notes to the LOGBOOK drawer in Org files. Most of us are used to using this drawer to record state changes in TODO notes. You can arrange to have the times … Continue reading

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Load Times Matter?

It seems as if everybody having even a passing acquaintance with Emacs is opining about Emacs load times. That includes Irreal, of course. Most of us take the position that it doesn’t really matter how long it takes Emacs to … Continue reading

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macOS Emacs Tricks

I’ve been writing a lot lately about Álvaro Ramírez’s Journelly, an iOS app that I use constantly everyday. It’s a great app that I recommend for everyone. But Ramírez has been writing apps for Emacs and iOS for a long … Continue reading

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GitHub As A Notebook

I like GitHub well enough; I link to it often and even have an account but I would never consider using it for anything but public files that I had replicated on my own machine. I’ve been over the reasons … Continue reading

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