Tag Archives: Emacs

The Zen Of Task Management

Posted on 2025-04-19 by jcs

Bastien Guerry has a longish post on how he uses Org mode for task management. If you’ve been around Org mode for any amount of time, Guerry will be familiar to you. He took over the maintainership of Org mode … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Decreasing Emacs Load Time

Posted on 2025-04-18 by jcs

A week and a half ago, Bozhidar Batsov stirred up a storm by claiming that Emacs startup time doesn’t matter. There was much foaming at the mouth but I agreed with Batsov: Emacs startup time hardly every matters. When it … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged | Leave a comment

Emacs For Everything

Posted on 2025-04-17 by jcs

Joshua Blais has an interesting post that looks at the idea of using Emacs for everything. That’s a familiar meme for us Emacsers, of course, but you don’t often see a careful, considered examination of the idea. Blais is an … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged | Leave a comment

Scrim Beta

Posted on 2025-04-15 by jcs

Charles Choi, someone whom Irreal often writes about, has a new app and is looking for beta testers. His app, scrim, is a way of making the org-protocol available to macOS users. The problem is that org-protocol depends on the … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Emacs And Lisp

Posted on 2025-04-14 by jcs

Joe Marsahll has been blogging up a storm lately. One of his latest posts is a sort of personal history of Emacs and its relationship to Lisp. When Marshall started as an undergraduate, he was using the line oriented editor … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged | Leave a comment

Prot On Elisp

Posted on 2025-04-13 by jcs

If you follow the various Emacs forums, you’ll see a lot a whining about how hard Elisp is to learn and how things would be so much better if only the extension language were something rational like Python, Ruby, or … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Configuring Journelly

Posted on 2025-04-11 by jcs

After my post Initial Thoughts On Journelly, in which I recounted how I’m using Álvaro Ramírez’s Journelly app, Bren Smith asked me to share my configuration for sharing files between my iOS devices and my Mac. If you’re an Emacs … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Another Happy Journelly User

Posted on 2025-04-10 by jcs

As you all know by now, I’ve become a huge Journelly fan. Its author, Álvaro Ramírez, thinks of it as Twitter for your private use. That’s a reasonable description given its user interface but it doesn’t begin to capture its … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Emacs Startup Time

Posted on 2025-04-08 by jcs

Bozhidar Batsov has a post that claims something I’ve often said: Emacs startup time doesn’t matter. No one is saying that your editor taking 30 seconds to start is acceptable but by and large the people you see worrying about … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged | Leave a comment

Setq Versus Setopt

Posted on 2025-04-07 by jcs

Like most people, I use setq to set user options in my Emacs configuration. It’s the canonical way of setting a variable in just about any Lisp. But, as Bozhidar Batsov says, it’s not always the best way of setting … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged | Leave a comment