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I recently wrote a post about writerdecks and minimalist “distraction-free” writing environments in general. I concluded that the most minimalist writing environment you could get […]
I know it’s scary, but sometimes you have to delete files, and once they’re gone—they’re gone. I guess that was why GUI systems invented the […]
Pull up git log –oneline on a project—or open the Magit log with l l from the status buffer and you might see two slightly […]
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about “distributed notebooks” generated in Org Mode and published to bare bones Web 1.0 HTML pages. Now […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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