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Emacs As a Terminal IDE

Posted on 2020-02-11 by jcs

Palmer Cluff has an interesting post that makes the case for Emacs as a terminal-based IDE. We usually think of IDEs as having a GUI, lots of buttons and menus and of being mouse intensive. Cluff says it doesn’t have … Continue reading →

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Bastien’s Org-mode Tricks

Posted on 2020-02-10 by jcs

If you follow the Emacs scene, you’ve probably seen some references to Bastien Guerry’s post on Org-mode Features You May Not Know. There’s been several tweets about it and, of course, Sacha covered it in her Weekly Emacs News. If … Continue reading →

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Working Remotely at Ars Technica

Posted on 2020-02-09 by jcs

Over the next few weeks, Ars Technica will be running a series of articles on the future of work. They’ve started off with a long and detailed article on working remotely at Ars Technica. Actually, working at Ars Technica means … Continue reading →

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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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