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Red Meat Friday: The Law of Unintended Consequences

When I added this item to my blog queue, I marked it as a Red Meat Friday post but now that I’m actually writing it, I’m having second thoughts. That’s because there’s nothing really controversial here. Everyone agrees—or should agree—with … Continue reading

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Red Meat Friday: Gray on Gray

Over at the Emacs subreddit, Lalelul wants to know How can I fix hard to read (gray text on gray background) dialog boxe? As soon as I saw it, I deleted the browser tab but I was too late. The … Continue reading

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Red Meat Friday: Throw Away That Soap

Another skirmish in the Vi(m) vs. Emacs wars. What do you do when you discover that your girlfriend uses Vim kitchen soap? If you’re an Emacser, the answer is clear: you tell her you have to throw it away. That’s … Continue reading

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Red Meat Friday: Neovim and Astro

Regular readers know that I was a Vi/Vim user for many years before I switched to Emacs. I liked Vim and was happy with it but when I started writing in Lisp dialects, trying Emacs seemed liked a worthwhile experiment. … Continue reading

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Red Meat Friday: What Are They Expecting?

This probably isn’t really a Red Meat Friday item—unless you’re a dentist—but it is, nevertheless, pretty funny and perfectly captures a common but annoying occurrence at the dentist’s office: any word yet on what a dentist is expecting when he … Continue reading

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Red Meat Friday: Props For Elon

Say what you want about Elon Musk but Irreal holds him in special regard because of a whimsical decision he made for SpaceX. Most observant folks know that Irreal is an admirer of Iain M. Banks’ Culture novels. Indeed, the … Continue reading

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Red Meat Friday: Exiting Vim (Again)

One would think—I certainly did—that the “exiting Vim” meme has been exhausted by now and only invoked by the type of people who inspired the eternal September joke. But, it turns out, there is some new wine for the old … Continue reading

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Red Meat Friday: Life Of An Emacser

As anyone who has ventured into the event horizon of their Emacs configuration knows, it can be extraordinarily difficult to get out. As the cartoon suggests, sometimes it can even suck up every available mental cycle leaving no time for … Continue reading

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Red Meat Friday: You Can’t Code If…

Here’s some red meat that’s sure to exercise more than a few people: Some #IDE have nice features. But if you can’t create a non-trivial software project in #vim (or whatever capable text editor you prefer, might even be *shudder* … Continue reading

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Red Meat Friday: Where Your Editor Runs…

…and what it says about you. #Emacs pic.twitter.com/L63frIZxOA — William Méndez (@MrWMENDEZ) December 12, 2022 I’m sure we Emacers can all agree on the conclusion that “We are not the same.”

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