Author Archives: jcs

The Magic of a Write-Enabled Dired

Posted on 2019-04-06 by jcs

Here’s a great tip from learn emacs on how to change a group of file names: Need to change alot of file names in a directory at once? Dired to the rescue! M-x dired C-x C-q (to toggle dired buffer/dir … Continue reading →

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When You Should Use Gotos

Posted on 2019-04-05 by jcs

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Vivek Haldar’s discussion of Dijkstra’s famous paper on why you shouldn’t use gotos in higher order languages. Dijkstra’s admonition has become received wisdom these days to the point of becoming a shibboleth … Continue reading →

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Dvorak and QWERTY

Posted on 2019-04-04 by jcs

It’s probably just my innate grumpiness and contrariness but I’ve never bought into the Dvorak hype. Adherents of the Dvorak layout will tell you that it’s much more logical and will make you a faster typist. I’ve never been convinced … Continue reading →

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Org Mode 9.2.3 Has Been Released

Posted on 2019-04-03 by jcs

Bastien writes that Org-mode 9.2.3 is out: #emacs #orgmode 9.2.3, a bugfix release, is out. Enjoy ! https://t.co/dK4uSFUjXb — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) April 2, 2019 It’s a bug fix release so if you’re having any issues with Org you should … Continue reading →

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Understanding the Emacs Font System

Posted on 2019-04-02 by jcs

I’ve always felt a little bad that I have a hard time understanding how to work with Emacs fonts. Even simple things like setting the default font seems harder than it should be. It turns out that it’s not (just) … Continue reading →

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OrgMode Tutorial Plans

Posted on 2019-04-01 by jcs

Rainer König is back, after 15 months, with news of some changes in his life and his plans for his video series. In the latest video, König explains that he’ll be changing jobs soon and is also considering starting his … Continue reading →

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Privacy.io

Posted on 2019-03-31 by jcs

From John Cook’s Data Privacy Twitter feed we have this recommendation: How to protect your privacyhttps://t.co/4Os4OH1p7D — Data Privacy (@data_tip) March 14, 2019 If you’re at all interested in privacy, you should take a look at the PrivacyTools.io site. It … Continue reading →

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Custom Highlighting

Posted on 2019-03-30 by jcs

Last month someone pointed to this Emacs Notes post from last year and I thought some of you might find it handy. As the post points out, syntax highlighting can be a wonderful thing but sometimes you have a weird … Continue reading →

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An Analysis of Some Password Managers

Posted on 2019-03-29 by jcs

Over at the Independent Security Evaluators site they have an interesting article on the security of of several password managers. It’s virtually universal advice from security experts that you should use a password manager and the authors of the article … Continue reading →

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Open Offices Again

Posted on 2019-03-28 by jcs

I thought I was finished with writing about the horror known as Open Offices for a while but I just came across an article that so fully mirrors my feelings on the subject that I had to wade into the … Continue reading →

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