Monthly Archives: June 2016

Interacting with the Emacs Compile Buffer

Posted on 2016-06-12 by jcs

Artur Malabarba, an exemplar of configuring Emacs to accommodate your workflow, solves a long standing problem with the Emacs compile command. Although the command is powerful, it doesn’t allow you to interact with the build process. Malabarba presents a bit … Continue reading →

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Project Planning with Org Mode

Posted on 2016-06-11 by jcs

Peter J. Jones has a really useful post on how he uses Org mode to do project planning. In his post he demonstrates some features of Org mode that you might not be familiar with. Chief among these is column … Continue reading →

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Writing Leanpub Books with Org Mode

Posted on 2016-06-10 by jcs

As most of you know, I’ve moved almost all my writing chores to Org mode so I’m always on the lookout for new writing workflows that leverage Org. I particularly enjoy posts about using Org mode to write books. Lakshmi … Continue reading →

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Emacs Modifier Keys on OS X

Posted on 2016-06-09 by jcs

Yesterday, I wrote about using a prefix keymap to help deal with the shortage of available key sequences. That’s a good solution for what Xah Lee calls take-a-break commands. For frequently used commands it’s more efficient to use the 【Hyper】 … Continue reading →

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Defining a Keymap Prefix

Posted on 2016-06-08 by jcs

I’ve written about this before but it’s a useful technique and worth revisiting now and then. One of the problems all Emacs users face eventually is a lack of practical key sequences for commands. One way of solving this problem … Continue reading →

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Org Clocking and Idle Time

Posted on 2016-06-07 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) posts some useful information on Org mode clocking that I didn’t know. If you’re tracking your time on a task with Org mode clocking, it’s easy to forget to stop the clock when you finish or get … Continue reading →

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Rolling Your Own Crypto

Posted on 2016-06-07 by jcs

Via Jean-Philippe Paradis: when you roll your own crypto pic.twitter.com/nRdwPhGpeG — Martin Shelton (@mshelton) May 20, 2016 It made me laugh but it’s all too true.

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Pandoc Upgraded

Posted on 2016-06-06 by jcs

If you do a lot of your writing with Org mode the way I do, you may sometimes need pandoc to help with exporting your work. If you are one of those people, Karl Voit has some good news for … Continue reading →

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What’s It Take?

Posted on 2016-06-05 by jcs

Those of us in the US have ample reason to despair of our legislators’ willingness to collude with the NSA in the evisceration of the Fourth Amendment. But at least our congress draws the line when it comes to spying … Continue reading →

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A Checklist for Backdoor Proposals

Posted on 2016-06-04 by jcs

The ludicrous and unworkable Burr-Feinstein bill appears dead, a victim of its “do magic somehow” prescriptions and a lack of support from the White House and intelligence agencies. Nonetheless, we can expect more of the same perhaps even from the … Continue reading →

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