Monthly Archives: December 2011

Running Emacs Lisp On Several Files

Posted on 2011-12-07 by jcs

Xah Lee as an instructive post on converting and scaling images with Emacs. Unlike him, I don’t often need to scale or convert even a single image, let alone many, but he does show an interesting technique to pass several … Continue reading →

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Drawing Key Sequences In Emacs (Updated)

Posted on 2011-12-06 by jcs

This is a sad story of my HTML ineptitude but one in which I eventually find the right solution. I’ve written several times (here, here, and here) about how I implemented Xah Lee’s trick of representing key sequences in a … Continue reading →

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Specifying Any Modifier Key In Emacs

Posted on 2011-12-05 by jcs

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a Xah Lee post that, among other things, mentioned how to set the hyper and super keys for use with Emacs. Lee uses them a lot because he has a bunch of … Continue reading →

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A History Of Unix

Posted on 2011-12-03 by jcs

Warren Toomey has a great article on The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix in the IEEE Sprectrum. Toomey runs the Unix Heritage Society that maintains a mailing list for those interested in Unix history and, most importantly, maintains … Continue reading →

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emacs follow-mode

Posted on 2011-12-01 by jcs

Xah Lee has a nice post on follow-mode. He describes how to take a wide frame, break it up into two or more horizontal windows, and then have the windows act as one large window into the buffer. That is, … Continue reading →

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