Tag Archives: Emacs

What Keyboard Are You Using With Emacs

Posted on 2024-10-22 by jcs

A month ago I opined that no true Scotsman Emacser would view anything but the Space Cadet Keyboard as the apotheosis of keyboards for Emacs users. I was promptly schooled that, to the contrary, most Emacs users today have no … Continue reading →

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Adding Org Image Links From Dired

Posted on 2024-10-21 by jcs

Over at DyerDwelling there’s another great example of using a bit of Elisp to sand down the friction of a recurring task. The task in question is generating an Org link with attributes for an image file in Dired to … Continue reading →

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Substitute Command Keys

Posted on 2024-10-20 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has a nice post on the Emacs substitute-command-keys command. The TL;DR is that it’s a way of mapping a command name to its keybinding. I’ve long been familiar with it but only in the context of Emacs … Continue reading →

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Emacs Drawing Tools

Posted on 2024-10-19 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, ismbks asks about drawing tools for Emacs. If you’re like me, the only thing that comes to mind is artist-mode with possible export through ditaa. That combination has always met my needs but it is … Continue reading →

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Moving Among Emacs Windows

Posted on 2024-10-16 by jcs

Once you discover the utility of having multiple windows in a single Emacs frame, the question of how to switch between those windows arises naturally. Emacs, of course, has you covered. You can use Ctrl+x o to cycle between windows. … Continue reading →

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Organizing A Book In Org Mode

Posted on 2024-10-15 by jcs

Somehow, I missed this great reference to Ron Galloway’s outline for using Org mode to organize a book. Fortunately, Sacha had me covered with her excellent Emacs News. If you haven’t written a book before, it may be surprising how … Continue reading →

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Writing With Emacs Redux

Posted on 2024-10-09 by jcs

Four years ago I wrote about James Gill’s list of Emacs resources for writers. It was a curated list of resources that addressed writing prose of various sorts with Emacs. In April, I revisited the list. Judging from what I … Continue reading →

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Emacs Configuration Can Be Easy

Posted on 2024-10-07 by jcs

A frequent complaint we hear from n00bs is that Emacs out of the box is unusable, that it’s really hard to configure, and so you need something like Doom to get going. Generations of Emacs users have put the lie … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Is Lisp Syntax Boring

Posted on 2024-10-04 by jcs

Wait. What? Is Lisp syntax boring? My immediate response is, “Of course it is.” That’s its strength. Lisp doesn’t have much syntax so unlike other languages you can immediately start using the language without having to worry about learning a … Continue reading →

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The Atkinson Hyperlegible Font

Posted on 2024-10-03 by jcs

As those of you who have been around for awhile know, Irreal has a fascination with fonts for Emacs. I most recently wrote about them here. But, all those posts have been about coding fonts. Today, I want to talk … Continue reading →

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