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Deleting Garbage Files

Posted on 2021-12-14 by jcs

John D. Cook who, among other things, publishes the TeX Tips Twitter feed, is an Emacs user and has a useful tip for cleaning up “garbage files”. Garbage files are intermediate files that can easily be regenerated. Examples are the … Continue reading →

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Real Crosswords

Posted on 2021-12-13 by jcs

I like crossword puzzles and when I’m on a roll will do 3 to 5 a day. But being an American, I’m a crossword sissy. American crossword clues are mostly a synonym or direct pointer to the target word. About … Continue reading →

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Booster Shots and Other Reasons for Not Doing Any Work

Posted on 2021-12-12 by jcs

Last Friday I got my COVID-19 booster shot. Here in Tampa, at least, that was easy. You can get them anywhere with an even tenuous link to the healthcare industry. As happened with my second shot, I woke up the … Continue reading →

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Native Compilation in Emacs

Posted on 2021-12-11 by jcs

Andrea Corallo gave an interesting talk at EmacsConf 2021 on his Emacs Lisp native compilation project. For those who don’t know, the native compilation project provides a compiler that converts Emacs Lisp into native code for the host machine. The … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Cursive’s Last Stand

Posted on 2021-12-10 by jcs

It’s been a while since I’ve ventured into the emotional minefield that is cursive handwriting. Here’s a couple of tweets from Paul Graham that make two very good points: They should start by at least not making kids learn the … Continue reading →

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Cloning Buffers

Posted on 2021-12-09 by jcs

Mickey Petersen tweets about cloning buffers and makes explicit a distinction that I must admit I wasn’t clear on. You can clone indirect buffers in #emacs with C-x 4 c — very useful if you want to browse two or … Continue reading →

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An Emacs.app Bundle for macOS

Posted on 2021-12-08 by jcs

A few days ago, I wrote about a script to build Emacs on the Mac M1. It was perfect for Mac users who want to build their own Emacs exactly the way they want. Not everyone wants to do that, … Continue reading →

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The Lab Leak

Posted on 2021-12-07 by jcs

As you all know, I’ve been obsessed with the origins of COVID-19 and what is clearly the cover-up arising from it. To me, there are two main components to the story. The first is the malfeasance of the press, which … Continue reading →

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Rethinking Email

Posted on 2021-12-06 by jcs

Everyone seems to have a love/hate (for some, a mostly hate) relationship with email. Some even speak of it in terms of punishments appropriate to the ninth circle of hell. I don’t get that exercised probably because I’m parsimonious about … Continue reading →

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An Emacs Build Script for macOS

Posted on 2021-12-05 by jcs

Colin McLear (mclearc) has a script for building Emacs on macOS. He uses it to build Emacs on the M1 MacBook pro running Monterrey 12.0.1. I see lots of requests from people asking where they can find an Emacs binary … Continue reading →

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