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How To Create A Missing Directory

Posted on 2022-06-13 by jcs

If you’ve been around Emacs for a while, you probably know that Emacs has you covered if you call find-file (Ctrl+x Ctrl+f) and specify a path with a missing directory. You simply get asked if you want to create the … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Who’s Next?

Posted on 2022-06-10 by jcs

As most of you have probably heard by now, the Atom editor is being discontinued in December. That’s sad, of course, especially for Atom users but there are some lessons to be drawn. Eric Fraga has the TL;DR: This is … Continue reading →

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Determining If Emacs Is Running In Terminal Or Gui Mode

Posted on 2022-06-05 by jcs

Even if, like me, you mostly run Emacs in GUI mode, it’s sometimes desirable to invoke a terminal instance. Mostly it doesn’t matter which mode you’re in but there are a few things—font colors, for example—that you may want to … Continue reading →

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Commercial Emacs

Posted on 2022-06-04 by jcs

In a followup to his recent post on Modern Emacs, Bozhidar Batsov has a short offering that talks a little about Commercial Emacs. It’s a fork of GNU Emacs but it’s not the first one. There have been several others, … Continue reading →

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Making Emacs Modern

Posted on 2022-06-02 by jcs

Bozhidar Batsov has a post on one of my favorite hobbyhorses: making Emacs more modern. I’ve written about this several times. See here and here for example. Batsov is not sympathetic either. As Batsov notes, almost all these proposed modernizations … Continue reading →

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Emacs as a Lifestyle

Posted on 2021-11-26 by jcs

Bozhidar Batsov made an interesting observation that several people have mentioned or commented on. The TL;DR is that Batsov thinks that Emacs can be considered a lifestyle. If you’re an Emacser your reaction is probably like mine: it’s not literally … Continue reading →

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Scimax Notebook

Posted on 2021-10-16 by jcs

As I’ve said before, John Kitchin is producing so many videos that it’s hard to keep up. One of his recent videos is about Scimax Notebook, his implementation of digital notebooks based on Projectile, Bozhidar Batsov’s project interaction package. In … Continue reading →

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Zamansky-79: Project.el

Posted on 2021-10-13 by jcs

Mike Zamansky, on the heals of his last video, has another offering in his Using Emacs Series. This time it’s about the new Project library built into the latest Emacs. If you’re familiar with Bozhidar Batsov’s Projectile package, you can … Continue reading →

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Make Scripts Executable Automatically

Posted on 2021-09-29 by jcs

Bozhidar Batsov has a splendid tip over at Emacs Redux. I’m pretty sure he’s mentioned it before but it’s so useful it bears repeating. The tip is how to make scripts executable. “Scripts” means a file that has a shebang … Continue reading →

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Some Custom Commands from Prot

Posted on 2021-07-27 by jcs

Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) has another video up in which he discusses a few of the commands he’s implemented to make his workflow easier. There’s no overriding theme, just some functions he’s written that ease his work in various ways. For … Continue reading →

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