Monthly Archives: February 2017

MobileOrg Web Site

Posted on 2017-02-08 by jcs

As I wrote a few days ago, there’s a new version of MobileOrg for iOS. If you’re an Org user and have an iOS device, this is a nice way of taking your Org files with you. You don’t get … Continue reading →

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Emacs 25.2 RC1

Posted on 2017-02-07 by jcs

Emacs 25.2 is on its way. Nicolas Petton has announced that Emacs 25.2 RC1 is out.

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Imenu and Use-package

Posted on 2017-02-06 by jcs

A couple of years ago, I wrote about Jordon Biondo’s gist that allowed imenu to locate use-package blocks in your .emacs or init.el files. It’s really useful and I recommended it to everyone who spent any time editing their Emacs … Continue reading →

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Scaling Git at Microsoft

Posted on 2017-02-05 by jcs

Brian Harry has a fascinating post that discusses Microsoft’s use of Git. At first blush that may seem profoundly uninteresting but consider: for various reasons Microsoft maintains very few repositories so, for example, all of Windows core is in a … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday Ken

Posted on 2017-02-04 by jcs

Today is Ken Thompson’s birthday. There are few people in our industry that have had a bigger effect. Unix, regular expressions, chess, UTF-8, Go: the list goes on and on. He’s a giant and at 74 still going strong.

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Choosing Emacs

Posted on 2017-02-03 by jcs

Chris Siebenmann has made up his mind1. He was deliberating whether or not to give up Emacs and switch to Vim. He does a lot of sysadmin work and prefers Vim for that (although I think Tramp would go a … Continue reading →

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Dumb Phones and the New Luddites

Posted on 2017-02-02 by jcs

Vlad Savov1 over at The Verge has another of those annoying articles in which he complains that smart phones are too distracting and considers dropping back to a “dumb phone.” I’ve seen a lot of articles like this lately and, … Continue reading →

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The auth-source Manual

Posted on 2017-02-01 by jcs

Today, I saw this amusing, but doubtlessly true, quote in a tweet "90% of Emacs users have unusual setups and the remaining 10% are really unusual" — https://t.co/F1w7WrbrTh #emacs — Brad Collins (@deerpig) February 1, 2017 The link points to … Continue reading →

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