Author Archives: jcs

Justice!

Posted on 2021-04-06 by jcs

This wants to be a Red Meat Friday item but it’s not Friday and there’s not really any red meat since everyone—but Zuckerberg, perhaps—is totally onboard with this. So no red meat but all the schadenfreude you can eat. Of … Continue reading →

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The TSA: Keeping Us Safe From Cash

Posted on 2021-04-05 by jcs

One, not so bad, consequence of covid19 is that we haven’t heard much from the TSA and its shenanigans. That doesn’t mean, however, that they haven’t been busy violating people’s rights. You’d think that traveling domestically with cash is legal … Continue reading →

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Reading PDF Files with DocView

Posted on 2021-04-04 by jcs

Emacs-Elements has a nice demonstration on using Emacs’ DocView to read PDF files. One of the nice things about DocView—as opposed to PDF Tools—is that it can read PS, DVI, Djvu, and ODF files as well as PDF files. The … Continue reading →

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An Org Workflow

Posted on 2021-04-03 by jcs

Luca Cambiaghi, a data scientist from Copenhagen, has a post on his Org-mode workflow. He’s got three problems to solve: He doesn’t know when a particular task needs to be worked on. He forgets to check on tasks that need … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Text Editors in Lord of the Rings

Posted on 2021-04-02 by jcs

If editors were places from Lord of the Rings, what would they be? Kieran Healy has an amusing answer. My only complaint is that Word is not a text editor. Still, its assigned place is apt.

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The Interactive Declaration and Modes

Posted on 2021-04-01 by jcs

Something that every Emacser knows is that learning Emacs is a lifelong journey. Even after years of use, we’re always discovering something new. Marcin ‘mbork’ Borkowski is always discovering new things and, happily, sharing them with the rest of us. … Continue reading →

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The Info Index

Posted on 2021-03-31 by jcs

Being an old time Unix head, I had a hard time warming up to the GNU Info system. I preferred the man pages when they were available and found the info utility hard to use. That’s probably because I was … Continue reading →

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Deleting Git Branches

Posted on 2021-03-30 by jcs

Over at Emacs Redux, Bozhidar Batsov has a nice post on deleting Git branches. Batsov says that no one really knows how to do it and those who say they do are lying. That may be ever-so-slightly hyperbolic but probably … Continue reading →

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A New Version of Mu/Mu4e Is Coming

Posted on 2021-03-29 by jcs

Dirk-Jan C. Binnema (DJCB), the developer of the mu/mu4e suite, has announced that version 1.6 of the programs are coming. The current stable version, 1.4.X, was released a year ago and since then development has been taking place in the … Continue reading →

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Org Mode 9.4.5 Released

Posted on 2021-03-28 by jcs

Bastien Guerry tweets that Org 9.4.5 is out: #emacs #orgmode 9.4.5, a bugfix release, is out. Enjoy! Also check announcements for 9.5 on https://t.co/CRNe0q0Kvv 👉 a new Org contrib package will be distributed via NonGNU ELPA and Org ELPA won’t … Continue reading →

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