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Don’t go bankrupt, go local
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Published: August 27, 2026 19:32
I saw an amusing Reddit post recently with an Emacs user thinking about declaring “Emacs bankruptcy” with a config file falling in the 800-900 line [...] The post Don’t go bankrupt, go local appeared first on Chris Maiorana.
The Emacs pastoral tradition
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Published: August 14, 2026 04:00
You’ve probably noticed, Emacs users tend to be a different breed than other computer users. While you can be reasonably sure that anyone who uses [...] The post The Emacs pastoral tradition appeared first on Chris Maiorana.
Using ffap to jump to file includes in Emacs
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Published: August 9, 2026 19:05
Lord knows I have trouble finding files sometimes. Over the years I’ve tried lots of schemes in Org Mode and elsewhere for the sole purpose [...] The post Using ffap to jump to file includes in Emacs appeared first on Chris Maiorana.
Org mode as a gantt chart generator
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Published: July 12, 2026 15:01
The word Gantt tends to evoke project-management software with bars you can drag and a hefty license fee. The underlying idea, tasks arranged on a [...] The post Org mode as a gantt chart generator appeared first on Chris Maiorana.
God mode notes with Denote and Consult Notes
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Published: July 1, 2026 01:00
Consult notes is a package that hooks into your note-taking system. It works particularly well with Denote, picking up your notes directory variable automatically. My [...] The post God mode notes with Denote and Consult Notes appeared first on Chris…
When tmux is your window manager
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Published: June 10, 2026 11:56
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 [...] The post When tmux is your window manager appeared first on Chris…
The Emacs Way: Deleting Files
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Published: April 6, 2026 16:00
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 [...] The post The Emacs Way: Deleting Files appeared first on Chris Maiorana.
Let the commits tell the story
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Published: March 30, 2026 11:00
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 [...] The post Let the commits tell the story appeared first on Chris Maiorana.
OrgFolio | Turn your scattered interests into cultivated obsessions
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Published: March 23, 2026 18:34
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 [...] The post OrgFolio | Turn your scattered interests into cultivated obsessions appeared first on Chris Maiorana.
Writing gloriously long sentences in Emacs with line highlighting
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Published: March 18, 2026 04:00
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 post Writing gloriously long sentences in Emacs with line highlighting appeared first on Chris Maiorana.