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Emacs Gnus: specify which mail folders to see at all times

Sun, 07 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The ultimate way to read, send and manage email (and RSS feeds, and Usenet) is with Emacs Gnus. Here are two ways to instruct Gnus to always show a select few mail folders.

Sharing our Transient Elpher menu

Sat, 26 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Matto and I are sharing our Transient Menu for Elpher, entitled TMelpher.

znc and rcirc and authinfo.pgp

Fri, 29 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The password needs to be in quotes.

Combining Emacs and Asciinema

Wed, 03 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This shows how to record an Emacs demo using Asciinema.

Note-to-self: Org Tree Slide Mode, and Whiteroom Mode

Tue, 02 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A short blog to remind myself to combine Org-Tree-Slide and Writeroom-Mode, the next time I do a presentation.

overcoming "Lisp connection closed unexpectedly" by cleaning .cache/common-lisp

Sun, 10 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Cleaning up whatever is in .cache/common-lisp helped me get around issues that began with the update of slime and swank to version 2.28 in Debian unstable.

Using slime would invariable go something like this:

True office productivity: Emacs remote collaboration (CRDT).

Tue, 22 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

To create documents, presentations, spreadsheets and the like, nothing beats Emacs with two or more users collaborating simultaneous in the same buffer.