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Regex Search and Replace in Emacs

Posted on 2022-12-27 by jcs

Tony Aldon has a short video on a couple of alternate ways to do regex search and replace in Emacs. The straightforward way to do that is to use query-replace-regexp (Ctrl+Meta+%) but you can do the same operation in steps … Continue reading →

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Why Emacs Keys Are So Unergonomic

Posted on 2022-12-26 by jcs

Here’s a blast from the past that I recently came across again. It’s Xah Lee’s post on Why Emacs Keys are Painful. Lee, as most of you probably know, is obsessed with keyboard ergonomics and it is fair, I think, … Continue reading →

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Vivek Haldar on Emacs 29

Posted on 2022-12-25 by jcs

Like mbork, Vivek Haldar a short list of some changes he likes in Emacs 29. As with mbork’s list, these aren’t the big things, they’re some small changes that he finds particularly helpful or appealing. You can follow the Twitter … Continue reading →

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The Year of RSS

Posted on 2022-12-24 by jcs

Irreal has considered RSS many times, especially since Google’s liquidation of RSS reader, There’s too many posts to cite here; just do a search for “RSS” on the Irreal site to see them. If you aren’t a silly person, you … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: You Can’t Code If…

Posted on 2022-12-23 by jcs

Here’s some red meat that’s sure to exercise more than a few people: Some #IDE have nice features. But if you can’t create a non-trivial software project in #vim (or whatever capable text editor you prefer, might even be *shudder* … Continue reading →

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Exporting To Markdown

Posted on 2022-12-22 by jcs

There’s a disadvantaged group of people in our industry that use Markdown to prepare their text for output to, say, PDF or HTML. I call these folks disadvantaged because Markdown, although fine for preparing simple documents for publication, has some … Continue reading →

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Peer Review

Posted on 2022-12-21 by jcs

Adam Mastroianni has a thoughtful and interesting article on peer review. The idea of having outside “experts” evaluate a prospective paper before it’s published in a journal seems to be obviously the right thing and something that has been the … Continue reading →

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Mbork on New Emacs 29 Features

Posted on 2022-12-20 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has a nice post about some of the things he likes about Emacs 29. Irreal has posted a couple of articles on Emacs 29 and what is coming but Borkowski’s post is different in that he just … Continue reading →

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Building An Exercise Table From a Journal

Posted on 2022-12-19 by jcs

Like many people, Simon Pugnet likes to keep a record of his exercising. His regime includes several types of exercise such as running, sit-ups, and pushups. Also like many of us, he maintains a daily journal so, of course, it … Continue reading →

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John Wiegley on Emacs 29

Posted on 2022-12-18 by jcs

Here’s another nice video from the EmacsConf 2022 conference. It’s John Wiegley on what’s coming in Emacs 29. As Wiegley says, it’s going to be a significant release with lots of new features. Here’s a list (cut from the video’s … Continue reading →

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