Author Archives: jcs

Another Org-based Writing Environment

Posted on 2019-03-07 by jcs

John Borwick was looking for a writing environment that suited him. He’d tried Scrivener and some of the other tools but they didn’t work for him. Then he saw Jay Dixit’s video that I wrote about back in 2015 and … Continue reading →

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UC Strikes a Blow for Open Access

Posted on 2019-03-06 by jcs

The University of California has struck a blow for the Open Access movement by terminating its subscriptions to all Elsevier journals. UC and Elsevier have been in negotiation for some time trying to find a way to make UC research … Continue reading →

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Today I Learned…

Posted on 2019-03-05 by jcs

…about the delete-horizontal-space command (bound to Meta+\). It deletes all spaces and tabs around the point. You can delete just the white space before the point by specifying the universal argument. I learned about the command from a reddit post … Continue reading →

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Org-mode 9.2.2 is Out

Posted on 2019-03-04 by jcs

Bastien tweets that the latest Org-mode is available: #emacs #orgmode 9.2.2 is out. Enjoy! — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) March 4, 2019 After the recent problem with the agenda being broken, I decided to stop living on the bleeding edge and … Continue reading →

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Some Wisdom on Pipelines

Posted on 2019-03-03 by jcs

Over at his blog, Ted Dziuba has posted a valuable piece of wisdom that is easy to forget. The TL;DR on the wisdom is that many tasks for which we instinctively turn to heavy-weight, distributed tools are more easily and … Continue reading →

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Refugees

Posted on 2019-03-02 by jcs

As documented in my last two posts, the editor holy wars wage on. Meanwhile, the ed partisans that you didn’t even know existed are inviting refugees from the war to come home to the Unix standard editor. They even have … Continue reading →

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That Didn’t Take Long

Posted on 2019-03-02 by jcs

The battle is joined. Guess where emacs.dev takes you.

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International Beat Up on Vim Day?

Posted on 2019-03-01 by jcs

It’s Friday so let’s have a bit of whimsy. This morning, I ran across two separate items poking gentle fun at Vim. First up is the fact that someone bought the vim.dev domain and immediately pointed it at the Emacs … Continue reading →

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Running Emacs as Your OS

Posted on 2019-02-28 by jcs

I somehow missed the videos by Emacs Guy in which he records his experiment in running Emacs as his OS. Sort of. The idea is to install a minimal Linux system along with an X-server and try to do everything … Continue reading →

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A Nice Linux Desktop Setup

Posted on 2019-02-27 by jcs

Dennis Felsing over at HookRace Blog has an interesting post on his Linux desktop setup. He’s a Vim user so he doesn’t have the advantages that Emacs brings for integrating common tasks into a consistent framework. Still, he has built … Continue reading →

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