I’ve been doing so much Emacs writing lately, so I guess it’s time I get my Emacs pinky (which is a form of RSI). I made a quick reference to it three days ago and got a lot of responses. What happened? I started to feel a strain last week,…
Years ago, when I started the old blog1, I discovered Solarized. I liked it. The colors were beautiful and worked for me, but eventually I switched to the Gotham theme in Emacs, which, if you take a look, is not much different — just a bit
Part four of Emacs Config Gems is about basic file operations and save functions. I realized as I was working on this that I have the frame configuration here, which is the wrong place for it. I will change it after posting. Alright, here w…
I got a bigger and better monitor recently, and I’ve been exploring calibrating it on both my Mac and my Linux desktop for the last week or so. It started out as a necessity: at full resolution (3840 x 2160), the text was just too small for…
A few days ago, I was rambling about style and semantic HTML. It was a post mostly about tags, but toward the end I said this: Reading through their tomb of standards, I realized I need to correct my headings on the blog too (I jump directl…
My actual configs start with pretty usual stuff you’d see across many other Emacs configs. As I was going through these however, I started to wonder how things work and why they ended up the way we have them today. In turn, that led to read…
Since I confessed my enjoyment of em dash in my writing last week, I started using them more freely. On a Mac, it’s Option Shift Hyphen, as Sasha would tell you. In Linux, it’s a bit more involved: Ctrl Shift U to bring up a search for Unic…
You know when you talk to someone else with ADHD when you realize you juggle 3 conversations in one, going from one layer to the other, and you’re both able to keep track AND connect the layers when needed all while having lunch walking, be…
For years, I’ve been using verbatim emphasis in org-mode to mark files and keyboard strokes, while reserving code emphasis to show function names, variables, and other elements of code. With the reintroduction of tags to the blog yesterday1…
You know how I said last time Part 1 was just the introduction? I lied. My emacs-settings.org file includes an introduction that covers what I already went over and more. I thought I’d skip it, but as I looked through the notes I left to my…
Don't ask me why, I'll tell you anyway This is one of the awesome things about having an espresso machine at home. I love watching the hot coffee “drilling” into the ice 📷. 🧊☕️☀️ Nice sunny day to see a sunflower 📷 Hello there red guy. G…
They’ve been sneaking up on me again in my own writing, and I’ve been trying to catch them, changing them to colons. That’s alright for the most part; it kinda works. Kinda. And then this guy1came along: …colons are so nearly useless — they…