Tag Archives: Emacs

The Problem With Emacs Revisited

Posted on 2025-01-26 by jcs

Way back in 2005, Steve Yegge wrote a wonderful post, the-emacs-problem, that discussed why Lisp is the right language for dealing with text and why Emacs is the right tool for dealing with it. A few years later I wrote … Continue reading →

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A Platform That Molds To Your Needs

Posted on 2025-01-25 by jcs

Álvaro Ramírez has a nice post that expands on his theme of gluing Emacs functions together. It’s a nice example in part because it’s so out of the ordinary and seemingly impossible from within Emacs. It turns out that Ramírez … Continue reading →

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Escape From Walled Gardens With RSS

Posted on 2025-01-23 by jcs

I am not on Facebook. I’ve never been on Facebook. I’m not on Twitter/X. I’ve never been on them. My entire social media profile consists of Irreal. I’ve always had an aversion to things like Facebook and Twitter without really … Continue reading →

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Exporting Tables To LaTeX

Posted on 2025-01-21 by jcs

A week ago, I wrote about Matt Magire’s use of Emacs and Org mode to prepare notes for the students in his mathematics classes. In his post, Magire mentioned that Org mode was especially useful for producing tables for export … Continue reading →

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Iterating In Lisp

Posted on 2025-01-18 by jcs

Joe Marshall has an interesting post on iteration for all you Lisp heads. It’s mostly aimed at Common Lisp and Scheme but a lot of it applies to Elisp as well so even Emacs users will be interested. The mail … Continue reading →

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Where Should Your Configuration Live, Redux

Posted on 2025-01-16 by jcs

A couple of weeks ago, I published a Red Meat Friday article about the proper place for your Emacs configuration to reside. Like many Red Meat Friday posts, it was tongue in cheek but it got quite a bit of … Continue reading →

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Installing By Default With =use-package=

Posted on 2025-01-14 by jcs

Bozhidar Batsov has a handy tip in his latest post. He, like me, organizes the package management of his init.el around use-package. It works well for him but he has a complaint. He almost always wants to install the packages … Continue reading →

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Class Notes In Emacs: Teachers’ Edition

Posted on 2025-01-12 by jcs

I’ve written in the past on my astonishment about people who are able to take mathematics class notes in LaTeX fast enough to keep up with the instructor: 1, 2, and 3. Some people who do this use Emacs, some … Continue reading →

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Converting Markdown to Org

Posted on 2025-01-11 by jcs

Charles Choi has a handy tip on converting from Mardown to Org. My first thought was that I don’t care about this because I write everything in Org Mode and never use Markdown. But then it occurred to me that … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Notepad Vs. Emacs

Posted on 2025-01-10 by jcs

Of all the pretenders to the Emacs crown, notepad strikes me as the most ludicrous. I am not, apparently, the only one. This cartoon captures my feelings exactly. The Emacs haters were, of course, out in force trying to deflect … Continue reading →

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