Tag Archives: Emacs

Beautifying Org Mode

As you all know, I’m not much for editor bling even though I care immensely what my finished text looks like. Still, I did take to heart Charles Choi’s recommendation to use proportional fonts for prose. The idea is that … Continue reading

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An Interview With Daniel Semyonov

Those of you who have been around for a while will remember Sacha Chua’s video interviews with various Emacs luminaries. Those were before the birth of her daughter and as any parent will tell you, young children can gobble up … Continue reading

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Emacs Nerd Porn

For all you Emacs nerds out there here’s a bit of porn. It’s almost like those joke pictures you see of Emacs setups but this one appears to be real. As much as I like the idea of this environment, … Continue reading

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A Comparison Of Markdown Editors

Although I find it hard to believe, the Minions assure me that there are still people who prefer writing in Markdown rather than Org-mode. I don’t want to relitigate that issue here. If you’re interested in why no right thinking … Continue reading

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Sparse Trees

Emacs Elements has a short video on sparse trees. The TL;DR is that sparse trees give you a method of filtering an Org file to show only the information that you’re interested in. The information can be random text, a … Continue reading

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Left Hand Quick Commands

Emacs elements has another interesting video, this time on some commands that he’s rebound for quick invocation. Those commands are (roughly): kill-buffer set-mark-command (Push mark) set-mark-command (Pop mark) exchange-point-and-mark jump-out-of-pair (A custom command) He begins the video with some praise … Continue reading

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: That’s Not Vim…

Just a quickie today but it’s really, really red meat. If you’re an Emacs partisan, it will give you a reason to chuckle all day. If you worship at the Church of Vim, you’ll be less amused. As I’ve said … Continue reading

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Neal Stephenson On Emacs

All of us Emacs nerds are familiar with Neal Stephenon’s essay In the Beginning…Was the Command Line, in which he describes Emacs as the thermonuclear word processor. A couple of years ago, he did a podcast with Lex Fridman in … Continue reading

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A Deep Dive On Registers

Arialdo Martini is back with a very informative post about using registers to store buffer locations and other data. He starts with positing the need to store buffer locations by name rather than storing them in a ring buffer as … Continue reading

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Writing With Emacs

This post is about another of my browsers tabs that I’ve had open seemingly forever. It’s a curated list of resources for writing with Emacs. As such, it’s a nice coda to my previous post on Emacs writing workflows. It’s … Continue reading

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