Author Archives: jcs

Making a Function a Command

Posted on 2019-07-05 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has an interesting post on Emacs keyboard macros in the wild. He had a seemingly conventional repetitive editing task that he wanted to accomplish via Emacs keyboard macros but a few problems came up. It’s a nice … Continue reading →

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Deciding What Functions To Do In Emacs

Posted on 2019-07-04 by jcs

Extremeaxe5 has a question: Hardcore emacs users, what rules do you use to separate what you do from within emacs / what you do outside of e https://t.co/TwgxVlW89k #Emacs — Emacs BOT (@emacsbot) July 2, 2019 For me the answer … Continue reading →

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Chrome Has Become Surveillanceware

Posted on 2019-07-03 by jcs

Last year I wrote about Matthew Green’s post on why he was giving up the Chrome browser despite being a user for many years. The TL;DR was that Google’s decision to surreptitiously log the browser into Google when you used … Continue reading →

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Mickey on Polymode

Posted on 2019-07-02 by jcs

If you’ve been paying attention to the Emacs scene, you may have heard about Polymode, a package that lets you have two or more active major modes associated with a buffer. The first question to occur to many is, “Why … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Ebooks: The Past Comes Due

Posted on 2019-07-01 by jcs

It’s no longer news that Microsoft is closing down their ebook authentication server and those who have paid Microsoft for ebooks will shortly be unable to read them. It’s easy to say it’s their own fault and that’s not wrong … Continue reading →

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Ivy, Swiper, and Counsel Gain a New User

Posted on 2019-06-30 by jcs

Yesterday, I wrote about abo-abo’s recent enhancements to the Ivy UI. After I wrote that post, I saw this tweet: Yesterday I moved from my Ido & smex based workflow to ivy, sniper, and counsel. Transitioning was mostly smooth, and … Continue reading →

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Ivy and Directories

Posted on 2019-06-29 by jcs

Abo-abo posts that he has made some usability enhancements in Ivy directory handling. If you’re like me, Ivy is a fundamental part of your workflow. As abo-abo says, the original idea was simple: provide a list of strings and a … Continue reading →

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iPhone Security

Posted on 2019-06-28 by jcs

One of the reasons I have an iPhone rather than an Android device is that I feel it’s more secure. Everyone—except maybe the bad guys—likes more security, of course, but not everyone is willing to pay the price to get … Continue reading →

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GitHub/GitLab Pull Requests from Emacs

Posted on 2019-06-27 by jcs

Prathamesh Sonpatki has a useful post that shows how to make pull requests for GitHub and GitLab from Emacs using Magit. Sonpatki took some code from one of Artur Malabarba’s posts on Endless Parentheses and made the trivial changes necessary … Continue reading →

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Judge Orenstein in the New York Times

Posted on 2019-06-26 by jcs

Remember Judge James Orenstein? He’s the federal magistrate judge in the Eastern District of New York who refused the FBI’s request to order Apple to help them break into an iPhone. I found his decision particularly interesting because the facts … Continue reading →

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