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Quitting Safari

Posted on 2021-09-12 by jcs

Today’s post is specific to those Irreal readers who use the Safari browser. As I’ve written many times, almost all my tube time is spent in either Emacs or Safari. A typical workflow occurs when I’m reading my RSS feed … Continue reading →

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Being More Productive with Emacs

Posted on 2021-05-11 by jcs

Peter Prevos has an excellent series of beginner articles on being more productive with Emacs. The series comprises the following posts: Getting Started with Emacs Configure Emacs Distraction-Free Writing with Emacs Getting Things Done with Emacs Taking Notes with Emacs … Continue reading →

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Why Use RSS

Posted on 2021-03-15 by jcs

Marc Kydd has a post from last month that I’ve had in the queue to write about. His post is on why he still uses RSS. I’m always a bit surprised by posts like that because why wouldn’t you use … Continue reading →

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An Emacs Workflow for Videos and Podcasts

Posted on 2020-09-11 by jcs

Protesilaos Stavrou has posted a very nice video that describes how he uses Bongo and Elfeed to play and control his videos and podcasts. Just being able to handle your videos and podcasts with Emacs is a win because it … Continue reading →

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Emacs: The Editor for All Seasons

Posted on 2020-06-21 by jcs

Derek Taylor is a Linux vlogger who was, apparently, undecided between Emacs and Vim. He likes them both, and he and I are in agreement that they are the two editors for serious developers. He’s been using Emacs more lately—although … Continue reading →

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Uses This Interview with Chris Wellons

Posted on 2019-10-04 by jcs

Uses This has an interview with Chris Wellons. I’ve written about Wellons many many times and consider him an outstanding engineer. I especially liked his post on Mutable String and Emacs Buffer Passing Style, which explains a method of dealing … Continue reading →

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RSS vs. Twitter

Posted on 2019-04-15 by jcs

Over at Gizmodo, Patrick Howell O’Neill belabors—what seems to me to be—the obvious. He posits that RSS is a much better way to keep up on what’s going on than Twitter. Wen I read that, my immediate reaction was, “Well, … Continue reading →

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Query

Posted on 2018-12-07 by jcs

This is a question for Emacs users on macOS 10.14 (Mojave). Since upgrading to Mojave and recompiling Emacs with the display patches, I’m seeing a delay of about 5 or 6 seconds when I invoke Safari from Emacs. This happens, … Continue reading →

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Deleting Mail by the Page in Mu4e

Posted on 2018-11-14 by jcs

Álvaro Ramírez is a recent convert to and fan of mu4e. He’s been using the system to handle his 4 email accounts for 5 months and is happy with the results. There is a problem though: with 4 email accounts … Continue reading →

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Xah Lee on Frames vs. Window in Emacs

Posted on 2018-06-23 by jcs

Xah Lee has an interesting post that I hadn’t seen before even though it’s originally from 2014 (since updated) and mentions a post of mine. The post is a discussion of whether it’s better to have a single large Emacs … Continue reading →

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