Monthly Archives: May 2015

Make Scroll Up and Scroll Down Symmetric

A handy tip from Wilfred Hughes: Emacs tip of the day: (setq scroll-preserve-screen-position 'always) will ensure that M-v always undoes C-v, so you can go back exactly. — Wilfred Hughes (@_wilfredh) May 16, 2015

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A New Common Lisp Book

Lispers have traditionally eschewed regular expressions but the truth is that they are often useful and sometimes the most practical way to deal with a problem. Because of the bias against regular expressions, the CL specification does not include them. … Continue reading

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Coffee

Not that we needed any affirmation but the New York Times makes it official.

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Peep-dired

Asok has a nice little utility called peep-dired that’s available from MELPA. It’s a Dired minor mode that displays the file at point in the dired buffer in another window. You don’t have to select the file or do anything … Continue reading

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SBCL 1.2.11 is Out

I downloaded, compiled, and installed SBCL 1.2.11, the latest monthly release of the SBCL system. When I ran the regression tests (on OS X 10.10.3) I got one failure. The main development platform is Linux so I’m assuming this is … Continue reading

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Digitization at the Hospital

Due to a sick family member, I recently had the occasion to spend time at one of our local hospitals. If you’ve ever been through that, you know that it involves a lot of waiting around, which gave me a … Continue reading

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Lenovo Law Suit

Just as I predicted, the roosters have come home to roost.

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Pragmatic Emacs

Just yesterday, I wrote about Ben Maughan’s Emacs Tip Mailing List and remarked that you could sign up for the mailing list if you liked but that due to widespread interest he was going to publish them as a blog. … Continue reading

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Cycling Through Spelling Correction

The other day I wrote about Ben Maughan’s Emacs Tips mailing list and recommended that you take at look at the Web site that also collects the tips1. In case you didn’t take my advice, I want to share part … Continue reading

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Working Remotely

I’ve long been fascinated by the idea of remote work. It wasn’t very long ago that the concept was foreign and completely out of the question to almost all employers. Happily, that’s changing to the point where it’s possible for … Continue reading

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