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The Emacs C API

Posted on 2019-01-28 by jcs

As you probably know, Emacs now has a C API that allows you to write extensions in C or any language that provides C bindings. Via Wilfred Hughes we have a pointer to this excellent documentation on how to use … Continue reading →

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Freeing Space on Your Mac Development Machine

Posted on 2019-01-27 by jcs

This post is nominally specific to Mac users but the same techniques, mutatis mutandis, could be used by developers on Linux and perhaps even Windows. It’s a commonplace today that disk space is cheap and that we can operate—to a … Continue reading →

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Having Org Notes Buffer Inherit Its Input Method

Posted on 2019-01-26 by jcs

When it comes to eliminating workflow friction, few do it better than Matus Goljer (Fuco1). His latest post describes a fix for a problem that I didn’t even know existed: When Org pops up a log note buffer (after a … Continue reading →

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Moving to Emacs

Posted on 2019-01-25 by jcs

Continuing yesterday’s theme of moving to Emacs, let’s discuss some ways of easing the transition. Nikhil Soni has a nice post that describes how he got Emacs to provide the features he was used to from editors like VSCode, Atom, … Continue reading →

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Why You Should Buy Into Emacs

Posted on 2019-01-24 by jcs

Christoffer Stjernlöf over at Two Wrongs has a very well done post on Why You Should Buy Into the Emacs Platform. Posts on “Why I moved to Emacs” are common, of course, but Stjernlöf has written a comprehensive post that … Continue reading →

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Does Behavioral Advertising Even Work?

Posted on 2019-01-23 by jcs

Techcrunch has published an excellent article that explores the case against adtech. It’s remarkably fair and balanced but concludes that the case against behavioral advertising is stacking up. One of their key pieces of evidence is that the New York … Continue reading →

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Test Drive Programming Fonts

Posted on 2019-01-22 by jcs

Programmers, it seems, are always looking for the perfect programming font. Years ago, I settled on Inconsolata and haven’t looked back. A lot of that is probably laziness: it can be a pain to track down fonts to see what … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 55: Irony Completions

Posted on 2019-01-21 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has posted another video in his Using Emacs Series. This time it’s about configuring Irony to get completions for C++. Personally, I don’t use things like company-mode and irony-mode because I don’t like having random buffers pop up … Continue reading →

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Planning Your Life with Org Mode

Posted on 2019-01-20 by jcs

Mats Tage Axelsson over at Linux Hint has the first in a series of posts about planning your life with Org Mode. This first post focuses on scheduling and capturing with Org-mode. There’s not anything new for those already using … Continue reading →

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Parentheses, Elisp, and Other Things That Aren’t Going Away

Posted on 2019-01-19 by jcs

It appears that I’m temporarily at the end of the Internet: I can’t find anything interesting to write about today. Instead, here’s a rant. I’ve written before that the Lisp Community’s well-known crabbiness with n00bs is probably the result of … Continue reading →

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