Author Archives: jcs

Ivy Occur Customizations

Posted on 2017-11-21 by jcs

I really like ivy-occur and the way you can take a list of Ivy completion candidates and put it in a separate buffer that you can manipulate in any of the usual Emacs ways. The easiest way to use it … Continue reading →

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Keeping A Lab Notebook Webinar

Posted on 2017-11-20 by jcs

I came across a nice Webinar on keeping a laboratory notebook. It’s from the National Institute of Health and is therefore aimed at medical researchers and the type of labs they work in. Still, there are, I think, valuable lessons … Continue reading →

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Beginning Emacs Tutorial Video

Posted on 2017-11-19 by jcs

Derek Banas has posted a nice introduction to Emacs video. It covers roughly the same material as the built-in tutorial with the addition of setting up a Clojure programming environment. Banas covers installing Emacs on both macOS and Windows. One … Continue reading →

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Magit Log for a File

Posted on 2017-11-18 by jcs

Here’s a really nice tip from Wilfred Hughes’ Emacs Command of the Day Twitter feed: M-x magit-log-buffer-file: shows all the commits that affected the current file. Great for understanding the history of some code! pic.twitter.com/psiuHb2cQm — Ⓔ Command of the … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday Smartparens!

Posted on 2017-11-17 by jcs

Fuco1 writes that today smartparens is 5 years old. To celebrate, Fuco1 has released Version 1.11.0. Over the last 5 years, smartparens has become a ubiquitous and very popular package. In the unlikely event that some Irreal reader is not … Continue reading →

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Org 9.1.3 Is Out

Posted on 2017-11-16 by jcs

Bastien tell us that there’s a new Org mode (a bug fix) out: #emacs #orgmode 9.1.3, a bugfix release, is out! And @ThierryStoehr will give an introductory presentation this weekend at https://t.co/NmNtsoaBlu cc @capitoledulibre — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) November 16, … Continue reading →

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More on ed

Posted on 2017-11-15 by jcs

Last month I wrote in amazement that there was someone who (still) liked using the ed editor. If you’re coming in late, ed is a line editor that was used extensively by the early Unix developers. That made a lot … Continue reading →

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The Case for RSS

Posted on 2017-11-14 by jcs

Recently, I stumbled across a couple of posts about the virtues and superiority of RSS. I was a little surprised because it seems like a no-brainer to me. What’s the competition? Facebook and G+? Those are systems for harvesting your … Continue reading →

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A Small Swiper Trick

Posted on 2017-11-13 by jcs

Over at the Emacs reddit, g00eykabl00ey shares a “swiper trick.” He gives an example of the trick where he wants to check the spelling of “Dostoyevsky,” which appears elsewhere in the buffer. To find the previous use—and its correct spelling—he … Continue reading →

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The NSA and Their Lost Secrets

Posted on 2017-11-12 by jcs

The New York Times has a damning article on the NSA and its spilled secrets. It goes into depth as to how the Shadow Brokers have disrupted NSA operations and destroyed the morale of its employees. In a sense, nothing … Continue reading →

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