After writing my post onEmacs and Igors, I reread Rudolf Winestock’s The Lisp Curse

If you’ve been paying attention to the Emacs scene, you may have heard about Polymode

Yesterday, I wrote about abo-abo’s recent enhancements to the Ivy UI

In my Portable Operating System post and its comments, I bemoaned the lack of an Emacs port to iOS/ipadOS or at least to the iPad. If I had that, I’d probably still use my MacBook Pro at ...

Cheong Yiufung has another great post up in his Org-mode Hidden Gems series. The latest post takes a look at Org-mode TODO functionality

I’ve long been enamored of the idea of working from anywhere. These days, that seems boringly quotidian but just a few years ago it was a radical idea fiercely resisted by the type of man ...

How would you solve this problem? Given a file of text lines, remove duplicate lines keeping the original order. The first thing that springs to mind is using sort | uniq or perha ...

Every Org-mode user is aware that Org is a huge package stuffed with all sorts of useful functionality. For most of us, a lot of that functionality remains unknown and hidden. Most often ...

Last Saturday at the Vintage Computer Festival East , Brian Kernighan and Ken Thompson sat down and chatted about some Unix history and other interesting events in Thompson’s life. The ...

Over at the Developers Area , Liran B.H has a nice practical guide to understanding AWK . There’s a whole book dedicated to AWK so obviously a single blog post isn’t going to cov ...