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When I posted last week about tab-sets.el, I didn’t know that this month’s Emacs Carnival topic is “Obscure Packages.” Well, it’s hard to be more obscure than an unpublished package that I use for my own idiosyncratic ends. So, here’s another! —————————————————————————————— Introducing doc-tags.el : a simple, low-overhead Emacs package for tagging and retrieving files using a SQLite backend.…
—————————————————————————————— In Emacs, my text editor of choice, tab-bar-mode lets you replicate something like the experience of using tabs in a web browser. For me, this means opening a lot of tabs with notes, lists, drafts, etc., such that my tab bar becomes a visual buffet of whatever documents are pertinent to the task at hand, be it writing, teaching, coding, whatever. This works great for…
This post shows how to set up Emacs popup frames in macOS, allowing quick access to Emacs functions from anywhere on your system. —————————————————————————————— As much as I would like to live in Emacs full time, I’m not quite there. But a recent post by Protesilaos Stavrou (aka Prot) is helping me bridge the gap. Prot has written a short but powerful bit of code that allows you to access any…
This post continues a series of video demos in which I show how I use the Emacs package zk for notetaking. The emphasis is on showcasing the practicalities of my process. —————————————————————————————— In this video , I…
This post inaugurates a series of video demos in which I will show how I use the Emacs package zk for notetaking. The emphasis will be on showcasing the practicalities of my process. —————————————————————————————— In…
This post describes how the Emacs package link-hint can be combined with ace-window to allow you to select, on-the-fly, which window a link will open in—instead of letting fate, or custom, or Emacs decide for you. —————————————————————————————— Ace-window is (more than) a fancy window-switcher The ace-window package, written by abo-abo , offers a handy, full-featured alternative to the built-in…