Tag Archives: Emacs

A Customized Agenda View

Posted on 2026-08-08 by jcs

Ashish Panigrahi has an interesting post on customizing his agenda view. He’s a graduate student, apparently in the sciences, and has to keep track of his tasks and their statuses. The natural solution for us Emacsers is to use Org … Continue reading →

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Emacs 31 And The Speedbar

Posted on 2026-08-07 by jcs

Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) has another excellent video. This time it’s on it’s on the Emacs speedbar and its Emacs 31 upgrade. The TL;DR is that as of Emacs 31, you can configure the speedbar to be displayed in a separate … Continue reading →

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Displaying The Active Clock

Posted on 2026-08-06 by jcs

Over at Ray on Emacs, Raymond Zeitler has an interesting post on displaying the Org clocked in status. The default is to display it in the mode line but Zeitler wanted to display it in the title bar too. It … Continue reading →

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The Em Dash And Emacs

Posted on 2026-08-03 by jcs

Irreal, as you all know, is an em-dash friendly site. Irreal has always liked them and now we like them even more because it puts a thumb in the eye of those mentally challenged folks who claim, erroneously, that “real … Continue reading →

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Turning Two Spaces Into A New Sentence

Posted on 2026-07-30 by jcs

In the Apple ecosphere—especially in iOS—a convenient short cut is to type two spaces to end the current sentence and start a new one. Specifically, two spaces will delete the spaces, insert a period and a space, and capitalize the … Continue reading →

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Folding In Non-Org Buffers

Posted on 2026-07-29 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) really likes being able to cycle folding in Org buffers. Of course, then he wanted to be able to do the same thing in any buffer. In particular, he wanted to be able to fold and unfold … Continue reading →

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A Quick EWW Hack

Posted on 2026-07-28 by jcs

I’ve been writing a bit lately about my growing use of EWW [1, 2, 3, 4]. I was always a little skeptical of those who said they made significant use of EWW for their browsing but then I realized that … Continue reading →

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Embark For CIDER & Projectile

Posted on 2026-07-27 by jcs

Bozhidar Batsov, who’s been writing about Embark lately has a nice post on integrating CIDER and Projectile into Embark. I don’t use either of them so you might wonder why I care. The answer is that Batsov’s post is a … Continue reading →

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Copy Link At Point In EWW

Posted on 2026-07-26 by jcs

Raymond Zeitler over at Ray on Emacs has a nice post on copying the link at point in EWW. It’s sort of hidden so that’s the reason for his post and this one. He decided to write his own because … Continue reading →

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A Couple Of Tips For Emacs on macOS

Posted on 2026-07-25 by jcs

Over at The Art Of Not Asking Why, JTR has begun a series on his Emacs configuration. This post covers his special arrangements for macOS. There are two tips, in particular, that seem to come up all the time. The … Continue reading →

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