Tag Archives: Emacs

Prot On Elisp

Posted on 2025-04-13 by jcs

If you follow the various Emacs forums, you’ll see a lot a whining about how hard Elisp is to learn and how things would be so much better if only the extension language were something rational like Python, Ruby, or … Continue reading →

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Configuring Journelly

Posted on 2025-04-11 by jcs

After my post Initial Thoughts On Journelly, in which I recounted how I’m using Álvaro Ramírez’s Journelly app, Bren Smith asked me to share my configuration for sharing files between my iOS devices and my Mac. If you’re an Emacs … Continue reading →

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Another Happy Journelly User

Posted on 2025-04-10 by jcs

As you all know by now, I’ve become a huge Journelly fan. Its author, Álvaro Ramírez, thinks of it as Twitter for your private use. That’s a reasonable description given its user interface but it doesn’t begin to capture its … Continue reading →

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Emacs Startup Time

Posted on 2025-04-08 by jcs

Bozhidar Batsov has a post that claims something I’ve often said: Emacs startup time doesn’t matter. No one is saying that your editor taking 30 seconds to start is acceptable but by and large the people you see worrying about … Continue reading →

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Setq Versus Setopt

Posted on 2025-04-07 by jcs

Like most people, I use setq to set user options in my Emacs configuration. It’s the canonical way of setting a variable in just about any Lisp. But, as Bozhidar Batsov says, it’s not always the best way of setting … Continue reading →

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New Window Commands For Emacs 31

Posted on 2025-04-05 by jcs

Being a basically boring guy, I almost always have a full screen frame with two side-by-side windows for Emacs. For some functions—Magit and Elfeed are examples—I temporarily pop up a single full frame window but the previous window configuration is … Continue reading →

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Initial Thoughts On Journelly

Posted on 2025-04-04 by jcs

Yesterday, I explained why I think Journelly will be useful to me. Today, I want to follow up with my initial impressions of the app. As I wrote before, I recently signed up for the Journelly beta and have been … Continue reading →

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Why I’m Interested In Journelly

Posted on 2025-04-03 by jcs

Over at The Art Of Not Asking Why, JTR suspects that I may be an apostate, or at least that I’m inconsistent. He notes, correctly, that I’m all in on Emacs in general and Org mode in particular, and yet … Continue reading →

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Use GNU Emacs : The Plain Text Computing Environment

Posted on 2025-04-02 by jcs

I just came across a link to this recently updated book on the plain text computing environment. It was, apparently, first written to describe Emacs 19.29 around 1997. That was a long time ago and Emacs has evolved considerably since … Continue reading →

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Emacs Redux On Flyspell

Posted on 2025-04-01 by jcs

Here’s yet another post commenting on something that Bozhidar Batsov wrote on Emacs Redux. I like to write about his posts because they typically look at some Emacs functionality that we all thought we knew about and tells us things … Continue reading →

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