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More’s Law

Posted on 2021-03-27 by jcs

Here’s a light moment to brighten your day. It doesn’t rise to Red Meat Friday status but it is amusing. pic.twitter.com/o0VMXIgc7y — Scott Jehl (@scottjehl) March 21, 2021 And, of course, its humor derives from its essential truth.

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Emacs 27.2 Installed

Posted on 2021-03-26 by jcs

Just a quick update on yesterday’s post. Last night I took a few minutes to download, compile, and install Emacs 27.2. The compilation completed without any problems. Really, I don’t know why people go hunting all over the Web for … Continue reading →

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Emacs 27.2 Is Out

Posted on 2021-03-25 by jcs

Bastien Guerry tweets that Emacs 27.2 is out and has the latest stable version of Orgmode included: #Emacs 27.2 is released: https://t.co/BNNAz9l38L It comes with #orgmode 9.4.4, the latest stable Org release. Enjoy! — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) March 25, 2021 … Continue reading →

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Emacs and TRON

Posted on 2021-03-24 by jcs

Someone posted a pointer to this old item on BoingBoing about the movie TRON: Legacy and Emacs. Most Irreal readers have probably heard the story by now but it’s a nice piece of Emacs arcana that’s worth reposting for anyone … Continue reading →

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An Mbsync Tip

Posted on 2021-03-23 by jcs

Charl P. Botha over at Vxlabs has a lot of very helpful things to say about configuring mu4e and mbsync. I’ve certainly learned a lot from him when I was attempting to get mu4e up and running. Now, he’s got … Continue reading →

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UK Police and Sci-Hub: Not Helping

Posted on 2021-03-22 by jcs

The BBC is reporting that the UK police—actually The City of London’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit—is warning students not to use Sci-Hub. You might assume, as I did, that their warning said something along the lines of, “Using the site … Continue reading →

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Control the Apple Music App from Emacs

Posted on 2021-03-21 by jcs

About 6 months ago, Álvaro Ramírez posted some code to play music on the Mac through Emacs. I didn’t see the point of installing a new music app when the default Music.app works just fine so I didn’t read his … Continue reading →

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Emacs 27.2 Is Almost Here

Posted on 2021-03-20 by jcs

There’s a lot of news about the upcoming Emacs 27.2. First, Eli Zaretskii wrote that RC1 for Emacs 27.2 has been released. Then he said that barring any problems, this release candidate would become Emacs 27.2 in about a week. … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Prettifying Emacs

Posted on 2021-03-19 by jcs

When I was younger, we had a term for programs that produced some sort of impressive display but were otherwise useless: eyewash. Such programs were produced for the benefit of the suits and visiting firemen. There’s a faction of Emacs … Continue reading →

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Industrial R&D Labs

Posted on 2021-03-18 by jcs

When you read “Industrial R&D Labs” in the title, what did you think of? Even in our field, there are plenty. There’s Xerox’s PARC, AT&T’s Bell Labs, and IBM’s Thomas J Watson Research Center to name just three of the … Continue reading →

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