Author Archives: jcs

Org Mode 9.2

Posted on 2018-12-29 by jcs

A couple of days ago, Bastien tweeted that Org Mode 9.2 has been released: #emacs #orgmode 9.2 is out. Happy Christmas! https://t.co/W2c3ifoFtr — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) December 27, 2018 I’ve taken to upgrading my packages on Sunday (only) so I … Continue reading →

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Writing and Publishing Emacs Packages

Posted on 2018-12-28 by jcs

NOTE: It turns out that I wrote about Scott’s post before but it has useful information so I’m going to publish this anyway. Al Scott was annoyed that he couldn’t run his Mocha tests from inside Emacs. He knew it … Continue reading →

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A Reminder about MELPA

Posted on 2018-12-27 by jcs

If you’re anything more than a casual Emacs user, one of your most important resources is almost certainly the MELPA package repository. I’ve mentioned this before but apparently a reminder is needed: MELPA is a voluntary operation run by Steve … Continue reading →

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Emacs for R Programming

Posted on 2018-12-26 by jcs

Although I’ve played around with it a bit and even written a few blog posts about it, I’m not really an R user and barely rise to the dilettante level. andyptt21 over at The Scientific Shrimper is an R user … Continue reading →

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Merry Christmas the Linux Way

Posted on 2018-12-25 by jcs

It’s Christmas and the Interweebs are quiet so I’ll just pass on this as your Christmas card from Irreal.

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The History of cat

Posted on 2018-12-24 by jcs

Over at Two-Bit History Sinclair Target makes the case that although it seems as if computer technology is always advancing and changing, we are still using software that is virtually unchanged from the dawn of the computer age. As a … Continue reading →

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A Theme for Prose Writers

Posted on 2018-12-23 by jcs

I came across a pointer to Kunal Bhalla’s Emacs Poet theme that may interest Emacsers writing prose using the Org or Markdown modes. As you can see from the screenshots at the above link, it uses a variable pitch font … Continue reading →

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Another Blogging Workflow with Org Publish

Posted on 2018-12-22 by jcs

I have a cold and feel awful so today’s post will be short but I did want to point you to Narendra Joshi’s excellent post on how he uses org-publish for his blog. What I really like about his setup … Continue reading →

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The Yoda of Silicon Valley

Posted on 2018-12-21 by jcs

The New York Times has a nice article on Don Knuth entitled The Yoda of Silicon Valley that talks briefly about his life and contributions to Computer Science. It’s been all over Internet but if you haven’t had a chance … Continue reading →

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Org to Dotfiles

Posted on 2018-12-20 by jcs

Back in 2016, I wrote about Haoyang Xu’s idea of keeping all your dotfiles in a single Org-mode file that tangles the individual dotfiles to their proper place in your directory structure. This allows you to write the dotfiles in … Continue reading →

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