Tag Archives: Emacs

On Org Alternatives

There’s a phenomenon that I both understand and don’t understand. That phenomenon is happy Emacs or Org users feeling the need to try out every alternative that comes their way. Notice I said “happy” users. If Emacs or Org isn’t … Continue reading

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Screenshots and Recording

Another day, another Álvaro Ramírez post. It’s hard to keep up. His latest post is macOS specific but very useful for those using a Mac who want to take a screen shot or capture a video. The Mac, of course, … Continue reading

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Time Spent in Emacs

Pavel Korytov is a fairly new Emacs user. He’s been at it for about two and half years but as seasoned Emacs users know, the learning never ends and even those of us with 15 or more years in are … Continue reading

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Shell Maker

I’ve written a couple of posts about Álvaro Ramírez’s implementation of Emacs shells for ChatGPT and DALL-E. After he wrote those, he noticed that they shared a lot of code so, of course, he abstracted that code out into a … 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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Describing Emacs In A Single Line

SnipingMan18 has posed an interesting questions on the Emacs sub-reddit: How would you describe the Emacs philosophy in a single line? If you’re an Emacser, take a moment to think how you would answer that question. My answer popped into … Continue reading

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A Coda to Álvaro Ramírez’s Eye Candy Post

The other day, I wrote about Álvaro Ramírez’s post on his Emacs theme. In a nice coda to Ramírez’s post, Aimé Bertrand writes about how he configures his UI and the functions he uses to support it. Bertrand has some … Continue reading

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Downcasing Every Occurrence of a Word in a Buffer

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has an instructive post based on a question in the emacs-humanities mailing list. The question that Borkowski addresses is how to replace every occurrence of a word in a buffer with its downcased version without typing the … Continue reading

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Emacs Eye Candy

Because Álvaro Ramírez has been building so many useful packages and applications lately, I’ve been writing about him a lot. I’ve always thought his Emacs theme looked nice despite the fact that it’s a dark theme. The minions, of course, … Continue reading

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Indexing Your Init File

James Dyer has a useful short post on indexing his init.el file. His scheme is simple. His init.el is broken into sections each of which starts with ;; ;; -> Section-name ;; Then he used occur to generate the actual … Continue reading

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