Emacs on macOS & (open-source) Software

The why Regular readers know the pattern by now: if something can be done in Emacs, I will eventually do it in Emacs.

The problem My email setup is the usual text based machinery I keep writing about: Mu4e with mu, isync (mbsync) and msmtp.

Why?

The why I have been looking to setup my personal knowledge management with Denote for a while.

Edit 2026-02-01: Since some internal functions in Mu4e have changed I had to update the code for timu-mu4e-view-just-save-all-attachments as well.

EDIT - 2024-11-09: See the Edits section further down.

Hello there!

Intro I spend quite a lot of time of my day in Emacs, which includes reading articles, watching videos, listening to podcast and more from all sort of sources.

Spring cleaning Let me start by saying this.

The intro Every Emacs user that I know changes the hell out of the look and feel of their UI.

File Management There should now be a trend in this series for custom functions (see the last posts for baseline & modules functions).

The reason There are a few things that depend on the context in Mu4e, some of which are mentioned in the documentation… It can be useful to switch between different sets of settings in Mu4e; a typical example is the case where you have different e-mail ac…

Modules The module timu-bits.el in my Emacs configuration is the first to loaded after the init file.

What for?

Yet another Emacs theme?

Why?

Update 2024-03-10: With the update of Mu4e to 1.12.0 some functions/variables have been deprecated and/or changed.

EDIT - 2022-06-25: I got some notes on Reddit by the ox-hugo dev (u/kaushalmodi) regarding some information in this post.

Intro Capture lets you quickly store notes with little interruption of your work flow.

Reason Let’s be honest as Emacs users.

Why would I do that?

Why this Listen… There is no lack of confusion about the proper way of setting variables in ones Emacs config.

Motivation For this one I got inspired by someone else.

UPDATE - 16.

Why?