Author Archives: jcs

Mu4e-conversation

Posted on 2018-06-14 by jcs

As I’ve said before, I’m not a fan of threading in emails. That’s mainly because it’s not that useful for the type of emails I deal with but I’m aware that most people have different workflows and probably do like … Continue reading →

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Configuring Wanderlust

Posted on 2018-06-13 by jcs

It was a great day for me when I finally got mu4e working and moved my email into Emacs. Emacsers who want to live in Emacs as much as possible will sooner or later look for a way of handling … Continue reading →

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A Complete Computing Environment

Posted on 2018-06-12 by jcs

Irreal oldtimers know that I consider Emacs a sort of light-weight Lisp Machine and that I can sometimes be—ahem—obsessive about it. Recently, I came across a series of posts that reveal me to be a mere tyro in exploiting Emacs … Continue reading →

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Format$

Posted on 2018-06-11 by jcs

The other day, I wrote about John Kitchin’s experiment with bringing f-strings to Elisp. In the comments, Noonian Atall pointed to Alphapapa’s format$ macro that does the same sort of thing. I just saw a reddit post from alphapappa announcing … Continue reading →

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Org Mode is Awesome

Posted on 2018-06-10 by jcs

I’ve written about John Kitchin’s Org mode is awesome video before (back in 2014) but recently Xah Lee tweeted about it and I watched it again. It’s a great video and worth mentioning again for anyone who hasn’t already seen … Continue reading →

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Mastering Emacs on 26.1

Posted on 2018-06-09 by jcs

Most everyone knows that you should read the NEWS file when you install a new version of Emacs. There is always a lot of new functionality and other changes that you almost certainly don’t know about. If you’re like me, … Continue reading →

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Emacs for Vim Users

Posted on 2018-06-08 by jcs

As I’ve said before, engineers may switch between Emacs and Vim but they seldom switch from Emacs or Vim to another editor. Sure, you see folks try out the newest shiny thing—VS Code is the latest example—but somehow they always … Continue reading →

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JWZ on Microsoft Acquiring GitHub

Posted on 2018-06-07 by jcs

There’s been a lot of chatter among the developer class about Microsoft acquiring GitHub. Most of it involves how and where to migrate repositories currently residing on GitHub. Jamie Zawinski, for one, has no sympathy for developers who are suddenly … Continue reading →

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Tech Addiction is Not Real

Posted on 2018-06-06 by jcs

I’ve written a couple of times about the silliness that goes by the name of “tech addiction.” It’s the notion that we—and especially our children—misuse our technology and have become addicted to it. Anyone with a modicum of common sense … Continue reading →

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Python for Lisp Programmers

Posted on 2018-06-05 by jcs

Back in 2000, Peter Norvig was getting complaints that the code in his and Stuart Russell’s book, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach was in Lisp, that many of the students using the book didn’t know Lisp, and that they didn’t … Continue reading →

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