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Toggle hidden files in Dired buffers

The more time I spend in Emacs' Dired mode, the more I want to tweak things. I wrote about a few of these last year. One other thing I wanted was to hide any hidden (.dot) files in Dired listings. The simplest way to do this would be to

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Denote and Howm, sitting in a tree

Long story, short: I'm using both Howm and Denote for notes in Emacs. But why? Below are some quick notes about why (with some "how" thrown in). Denote is such a pleasure to work with. It's simple, powerful, and sensible. There are no dependencies

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Using Gnus for email

A week ago, I toyed with the idea of using Gnus for reading Email in Emacs. As expected, I hated it at first. But then... Gnus is a newsreader that can be coerced into pretending it's an email client. There's no getting around this masquerade and

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I went a little nuts with Remember mode in Emacs

I went down a rabbit hole with the built-in Remember mode in Emacs today. Persistent Scratch with remember-note The Emacs *scratch* buffer is handy. It's always available and easy to get to. However, by default it doesn't persist between runs of Emacs. So, when I quit

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Denote-search, a simple search utility for Denote

lmq-10/denote-search This package provides a search utility for Denote, the simple-to-use, focused-in-scope, and effective note-taking tool for Emacs. The command denote-search is the main point of entry. It accepts a query, which should be a regular expression, and then searches the contents of all the notes stored in denote-directory

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