Charles Choi: Scheduling Future Tasks in Emacs (opens in new tab)

Back when I had to run a lot of long-running simulations on Unix systems, I became an ardent user of the at command, which lets one schedule a program to run at a future date\. I also used at to schedule different notifications, like sending a message to a pager \(yer, how quaint\)\. Moving to macOS \(nee OS X\) changed that, as it disabled by default the at command due to battery life management\. As I was unwilling to give up battery life for at , I learned to live without it\. That was, un...