Monthly Archives: January 2015

Some Tips from mbork

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has a short list of Emacs configuration tips that you may find useful. All of these are documented, of course, but it can be notoriously hard to dig out information of this type. For example, one tip … Continue reading

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Org Protocol

Abo-abo over at (or emacs has been blogging up a storm. So much so that it’s hard to keep up. In a couple of recent posts, he describes how he interfaces his browser to Org mode. The idea is that … Continue reading

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A Convert Reports on His Progress

A year ago, Bailey Ling was a Vim user. Like many of us, he switched to Emacs and now he’s giving a progress report. Many of Ling’s long-held work flows have become victim to Emacs. For example, he used to … Continue reading

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The Word versus LaTeX Paper Keeps on Giving

The infamous Word versus LaTex paper that I wrote about previously has taken on a new life as a gag. Every instance of “Word” in the paper was replaced with “Emacs” and every instance of “LaTex” was replaced with “Vim.” … Continue reading

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Word versus LaTeX: A Coda

A short while ago I wrote about the Knauff & Nejasmic study claiming to show that when Academics are writing papers they are more efficient with Word than with LaTeX. That study was, in my and several others’ opinions, completely … Continue reading

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Introduction to PGP Video

The good folks over at New York Emacs Meetup have posted their monthly talk. This time, it’s George Brocklehurst with a talk entitled A Pretty Good Introduction to Pretty Good Privacy. It’s a mostly narrated slide show, although there are … Continue reading

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Happy Birthday

Happy birthday to one of my heroes. Keep on doing what you’re doing.

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Open-Offices: Still Going Strong

The Washington Post has a nice article by Lindsey Kaufman entitled Google got it wrong. The open-office trend is destroying the workplace. As the title suggests, the article is a crie de coeur on the horrors of the open-office. Kaufman … Continue reading

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Quote of the Day

Well, really it’s from 2010 but still pithy and worth revisiting: I am currently working in Java to re-implement an algorithm I prototyped in lisp. If I replace all of the required curly-braces and semicolons in Java with parens it … Continue reading

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Using AUCTeX

Before I started using Org-mode for most of my writing, I typeset everything using groff. I occasionally used TeX but very little LaTeX. One of my New Year Resolutions is to learn more LaTeX. My recent post on Piotr Kaźmierczak’s … Continue reading

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