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Zamansky 66: An Eshell Switcher

Posted on 2020-02-08 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has another video up in his Using Emacs Series. The video is about his trying to use eshell more and building an eshell switcher so that he can easily switch among his active eshell instances. I really like … Continue reading →

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Finding Intersections Redux

Posted on 2020-02-07 by jcs

Last month, I published a post on Finding The Intersection of Two Lists. The impetus for the post was an Emacs Stack Exchange question asking if there was a better way to find the intersection of two lists than looping … Continue reading →

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Restoring the Elfeed Default Filter

Posted on 2020-02-06 by jcs

I’m a very happy user of Chris Wellons’ excellent RSS reader, elfeed. It has a very powerful search/filter function that lets you control what entries will be displayed and to search for an older entry that you want to revisit. … Continue reading →

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Thought of the Day

Posted on 2020-02-05 by jcs

From Karl Voit, we have this bit of wisdom: Brodie and Stonebraker define a #legacy system as “any information system that significantly resists modification and evolution to meet new and constantly changing business requirements”. According to this, #Emacs will definitely … Continue reading →

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Palindromes With a Sufficiently Smart Compiler

Posted on 2020-02-04 by jcs

Those of you who enjoyed my post on palindrome predicates may also like Joe Marshall’s follow-up to his original post that inspired mine. In it, he considers the two implementations—recursive and iterative—and what it would take for a sufficiently smart … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 65: Live Python

Posted on 2020-02-03 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has another video up in his Using Emacs Series. This time the video is about the live-py-plugin. The link takes you to the master GitHub repository that has code for Emacs, PyCharm, and Sublime Text. There’s a tutorial … Continue reading →

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Today is a Palindrome

Posted on 2020-02-02 by jcs

Today’s date, 02022020, is a palindrome. Palindromic dates happen all the time but today is special. So special that it’s unique. First of all, today is a palindromic date everywhere. Because of the silly date format that either the U.S. … Continue reading →

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Keeping a Table Header Fixed While Scrolling

Posted on 2020-02-01 by jcs

Bastien Guerry tweeted about a really awesome new Org-mode feature: The latest #emacs #orgmode (from the master branch) allows you to turn on M-x org-table-electric-header-mode RET to always keep the first row of your table in sight. pic.twitter.com/E3Bpw1G3a1 — Bastien … Continue reading →

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Spacemacs for Writers

Posted on 2020-01-31 by jcs

Frank Jonen has an interesting GitHub repository to help non-technical people use Spacemacs for writing. Jonen says that his interest in using Emacs for writing and the resulting repository were inspired by Jax Dixit’s talk for the New York Emacs … Continue reading →

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A Test for the Iron Law

Posted on 2020-01-30 by jcs

If you’ve been around Irreal for a while, you know about the Iron Law of Data Collection. Briefly, the law says that anytime data is collected No matter the rationale and promises about the data collection and the purposes to … Continue reading →

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