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Microsoft Is Closing Its Ebook Store

Posted on 2019-04-16 by jcs

Microsoft is closing its ebook store. Who cares? The people who have bought books from them care because they will no longer be able to read their books. Microsoft, to its credit is offering to refund the purchase price but … Continue reading →

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RSS vs. Twitter

Posted on 2019-04-15 by jcs

Over at Gizmodo, Patrick Howell O’Neill belabors—what seems to me to be—the obvious. He posits that RSS is a much better way to keep up on what’s going on than Twitter. Wen I read that, my immediate reaction was, “Well, … Continue reading →

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Mu/mu4e 1.2 Available

Posted on 2019-04-14 by jcs

If you’re a mu/mu4e user, there’s good news. Version 1.2 has been released. It’s mainly a bug release but there are a handful of new features, which you can read about here. I’ve been using it for the last few … Continue reading →

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Emacs 26.2 Has Been Released

Posted on 2019-04-13 by jcs

It’s official. Emacs version 26.2 is out and available at the usual places. I compiled and installed it on my Macs without any problems using the usual spell: configure –with-ns CFLAGS=”-g3 -O2 -I /usr/local/include/libxml2″ make make install make install-info sudo … Continue reading →

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The Recentering Sequence

Posted on 2019-04-12 by jcs

Maybe the Emacs developers knew what they were talking about after all. A couple of years I discovered that you can control the sequence of positions to which recenter-top-bottom will move the current line. As I wrote at the time, … Continue reading →

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Some Pithy Advice to Engineers About Crypto

Posted on 2019-04-11 by jcs

Via Karl Voit we have this Tweet from Tim Dierks offering some pithy but good advice to engineers about crypto: I’ve been working on Google’s cryptography policy (for engineers). It fits in a tweet: Don’t invent your own algorithms, don’t … Continue reading →

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Git and Plain Text for Writers

Posted on 2019-04-10 by jcs

Bastien tweets a pointer to an interesting article on using Git for writing: Interesting read on using #git for #writers : https://t.co/1qQe481zK7 … Not just via the @AtomEditor but also GNU #emacs, as explored here https://t.co/4qNCIyP5LU and discussed here https://t.co/d3alOHxudI … Continue reading →

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Screen Real Estate

Posted on 2019-04-09 by jcs

A month ago, Mike Zamansky posted that he’d just replaced his two 27 inch monitors with a new 43 inch 4K monitor. I commented that every time I saw a post like his, I had an urge to run out … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 57: Dired Subtree and Narrow

Posted on 2019-04-08 by jcs

Mike Zamansky’s been busy dealing with admissions for next year’s Freshmen and other professorial duties but he has found time to give us a new video in his Using Emacs Series. This one is about using dired-subtree and dired-narrow, two … Continue reading →

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Swiper-isearch

Posted on 2019-04-07 by jcs

Abo-abo has added a new function to the swiper suite that fixes a couple of problems with swiper. The new function, swiper-isearch, acts more like isearch. The first thing you’ll notice is that multiple matches on a single line are … Continue reading →

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