Tag Archives: Emacs

As I’ve written recently [1, 2, 3, 4], I’ve been changing the Irreal Bunker’s spelling corrector to Jinx. I’ve had a couple of issues—mostly with choosing the correction—but things have mostly been smooth and Jinx has a lot of nice … Continue reading →

Some time ago, I installed Embark but I never got around to learning it and it has sat unused ever since. Then I saw this post by Bozhidar Batsov and decided to take another look. The problem with Embark is … Continue reading →

Yesterday I wrote that I had reconsidered my stance on Jinx and decided to give it a serious try. The only problem I had was that picking the correct spelling wasn’t working as advertised. I speculated that this was probably … Continue reading →

In a stunning case of the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon, I’ve been running across the Jinx spelling corrector everywhere. I had never heard of it until last week when I watched and wrote about Prot’s video on writing in foreign languages with … Continue reading →

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has a nice post on the Jinx spell corrector. Mbork has tried fly-spell but found it too laggy for his purposes. That was back in the days when he had a Pentium class machine running at 100 … Continue reading →

Protesilaos Stavrou (prot) has an excellent video that addresses a problem I often see people asking about. The problem is how to globally set a key binding so that it won’t be overridden. He uses setting Meta+o to other-window as … Continue reading →

My pal Watts Martin has a post that explores an artifact from the past: the insert key. Martin, who’s been a Mac head much longer than I have, remembers when Mac keyboards still had an Insert. They no longer do, … Continue reading →

Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) has a very nice video on writing foreign languages with Emacs. The main problem for Latin languages are the diacritical marks. Other languages, such as Greek, Russian, and Chinese, have completely different alphabets. In either case, Emacs … Continue reading →