Tag Archives: Emacs

Reading Gmail In Emacs On macOS

As most of you know, I don’t use Gmail or anything else from Google—except YouTube—if I can help it. They have, sadly, moved from “Don’t be evil” to “Do whatever you need to do to make us money”. For reasons … Continue reading

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Auto Revert Ignore

Just a quickie from Marcin Borkowski (mbork) today. Like many of us, mbork likes to turn on global-auto-revert so that any file open in Emacs that gets changed by an external process has the changes reflected in the Emacs buffer. … Continue reading

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Zap-to-char Backwards

Today was a good Emacs day. I learned something new. Over at Ray on Emacs, Raymond Zeitler has a very nice post on using zap-to-char in reverse. He—hypothetically—was typing some text, inadvertently leaned on a key, and ended up with … Continue reading

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Rejecting Emacs Bankruptcy

Last week I saw this post by Case Duckworth about Emacs bankruptcy but this post isn’t really about Duckworth’s post. Rather, it’s about the whole notion of Emacs bankruptcy and whether it’s something we should embrace as a routine activity. … Continue reading

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Adventures On Emacs’ Event Horizon

Regular readers will be familiar with my occasional posts concerning my old pal Watts Martin’s journey into the Emacs event horizon. When he began, he swore that he would not be one of those “everything in Emacs” folks. He still … Continue reading

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Fonts and Typesetters

John Gruber has a very interesting—at least for those of us who obsess about typography—post on the fonts used by the various federal courts of appeal. For those of you who don’t know, the courts are very strict about the … Continue reading

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Giving RSI The Thumb

Emacs’ shortcuts and their role in RSI are a staple of Emacs commentary. Everyone, it seems, has their own methods for relieving stress on their hands as they use Emacs. Prot, for example, thinks that one-shot modifiers are the answer. … Continue reading

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Annotate In Place

Charlie Holland has a very interesting post about annotation in place. The idea is to take notes on digital content the same way you would if your were marking up a book or a physical paper. The important thing is … Continue reading

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EWW As A Way To Evade Paywalls

In my post on Omar Antolín Camarena’s May Emacs Carnival contribution explaining his reasons for using EWW as his default browser, I mentioned that Camarena said that one of the benefits of EWW not supporting JavaScript is that JavaScript is … Continue reading

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Marking Recently Modified Files In Dired

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) really likes all the ways you can mark files in Dired but noticed that an easy way to mark recently modified files was missing. He knows quite a bit about writing Elisp so it was an easy … Continue reading

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