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Monthly Archives: June 2015
Sacha on Supplying an Argument to a Capture Template Function
Org mode capture templates are more flexible than you might think. You can specify that the entry be stored in a file in a variety of ways. You can, for instance, ask that it be put in a date tree … Continue reading
Writing Mastering Emacs
Mickey Petersen has a really interesting post on the technical details of how he wrote Mastering Emacs. It’s not surprising that he used Emacs, of course, but less obviously he chose reStructedText as his source format. That choice was driven … Continue reading
Evaluate An Expression and Insert the Result
A handy tip from Wilfred Hughes Emacs tip of the day: M-: evaluates elisp snippets, but C-u M-: inserts the result into the current buffer. Really handy for quick scripts. — Wilfred Hughes (@_wilfredh) May 26, 2015 It’s easy to … Continue reading
The FBI and Computer Games
If you’re like me you’re probably often bemused by law enforcement’s almost comical misunderstanding of computers and software. As entertaining as it can be, it can also lead to tragedy. A recent example is the prosecutorial abuse in the Aaron … Continue reading
The TSA and Airport Security
Bruce Schneier talks sense on the TSA and airport security. After recent reports that the TSA missed 96% of Red Team attempts to smuggle simulated guns and bombs through the check points many are asking why we even have a … Continue reading
History of BSD Unix
I just stumbled across a nice Salon article on the history of BSD Unix. The article is from 2000 but still very interesting and relevant. Although it examines many of the key players in project, especially Bill Joy, the theme … Continue reading
The Editor Wars
Colin Weir nicely captures the absurdity of the editor wars: @marcoarment We also argue which 1970s text editor is best to use in a 1990s emulator of a 1980s terminal — Colin Weir (@radiocolin) May 18, 2015
Filtering by Tag in EShell
Howard Abrams has a nifty bit of Elisp that allows you to filter on file tags in eshell. As an example of his idea, suppose I want to list all my blog posts with a tag of “Emacs”. I can … Continue reading
Congratulations
to Maryam Mirzakhani for winning the Fields Medal, generally considered the highest honor that a mathematician can receive. The fact that Mirzakhani is the first woman to win it makes the award even sweeter.
Message Mode
mbork has a nice post on message-mode. The mode is meant to support email message editing. As mbork explains, there are several functions that make manipulating a message buffer easier. He’s using it with mu4e but notes that it’s handy … Continue reading