Writing gloriously long sentences in Emacs with line highlighting
Everyone knows I love finding whatever Emacs tricks and dodges I can to help writers. I wrote an article a while back about the benefits […]
The Emacs Way: Create Directories
In the last article in the series, we talked about deleting files, which is scary and sad. In this article, I’m happy to change topics […]
The Emacs Way: Moving and Renaming Files
In the previous article in the Emacs ways series we did a little jive on copying files from one source location to a destination location. […]
Toward the Org Mode future: distributed notebooks
You often see questions like this pop up in places around the Emacs community: how do you take notes in Org Mode? It’s a good […]
The Emacs Way: Copying Files
Table of Contents UNIXy Way Emacs Way Copying files is one of those everyday operations you will do constantly. Whether it’s backing up a config […]
On retiring the Dawson crying meme
As you all know, I have used the classic Dawson crying meme in my content—a longtime callback to the actor James Van Der Beek (March […]
Writing a novel in plain text has never been easier
I am happy to announce that my command line program for binding plain text writing files is live on my GitHub, with full documentation here, […]
Workout tracking with Org Mode bounced up to HTML file
As we are now full swing into New Years resolution season, I’m sure you are all thinking about getting your fitness game in order. If […]
Git changes and commits in Emacs modeline
In a previous post, I mentioned a little bit of modeline hacking to display git changes and today’s commit count. In this article, I thought […]
The 10-Commit Rule: how git version control can improve writing quality
An often overlooked part of the productivity equation is knowing when to stop. Sometimes it feels good to keep adding and keep going, but you […]