Emacs Users
Chris Maiorana has a lovely blog post in which he makes the case that Emacs users are a different breed. He starts with the quotidian observation that you can be pretty sure that a Vim or VSCode user is either Continue reading
Irreal
The minds had long ago come up with a proper name for it; they called it the Irreal, but they thought of it as Infinite Fun. That was what they really knew it as. The Land of Infinite Fun. --Iain M. Banks, Excession
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🥩 Red Meat Friday: The Perils Of Rewriting
The Emacs Cat, of whom I ve written many times, has a post on a broken change in Ubuntu that affected Emacs. The TL;DR is that the Cat upgraded to Ubuntu 26.4 but when he tried to use Emacs he discovered Continue reading
Some Thursday Humor
I don t see anything in my feed worth writing about so I offer this bit of humor to help you get through the day. If you ve ever wondered why an S-expressions is called an sexp, here s your answer. Like all Continue reading
Emacs Development: Ongoing And Good
One of the things that we Emacers hear with tiring frequency is that Emacs is moribund, old technology loved only by graybeards stuck in the last century. In fact, as actual users know, Emacs is undergoing constant development and is Continue reading
Markup Editing In Org Mode
Marcin Borkowski (mbork) does a lot of writing and, of course, uses Org mode for most of it. The hard part, he says, is not the writing but the editing. In particular, he s talking about the emphasis markup. If he Continue reading
Conditional Abbrevs
Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) has another nice video on something that I was vaguely aware of but had never used: conditional abbreviations. As most Emacers know, you can define abbreviations that will expand into another, usually longer or more complicated, string. Continue reading
Deskstop Save Without The Restore
Srijan Choudhary likes desktop-save-mode but he wants a slightly different behavior. He likes having his session configuration saved but he usually doesn t want it restored. He wants to restore it only when he closed it by mistake or forget do Continue reading
A Customized Agenda View
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
Emacs 31 And The Speedbar
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
Displaying The Active Clock
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