Author Archives: jcs

How to Make Swiper Choose the Second or Subsequent Match on a Line

Posted on 2017-05-09 by jcs

Chanyoung is a Swiper user and asks a question I’ve sometimes wondered about: when using swiper, how do you choose the second or subsequent match on a line? If you follow the above link, you will see that abo-abo himself … Continue reading →

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Comey and Feinstein At It Again

Posted on 2017-05-08 by jcs

James Comey and Dianne Feinstein are at it again pressing for legislation to compel device manufacturers to enable law enforcement to bypass device encryption. In a sense, nothing is new. Comey is trotting out the same arguments—many or most of … Continue reading →

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Going to the Beginning and End of Special Buffers

Posted on 2017-05-07 by jcs

Way back in 2013 Magnar Sveen published a nice bit of Elisp for moving to the beginning and end of a dired buffer. By beginning and end, he meant the logical beginning and end: the first and last line of … Continue reading →

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Email With Notmuch and Astroid

Posted on 2017-05-06 by jcs

If you’ve been hanging out at Irreal for any time at all you know that I’ve recently moved my email to mu/mu4e. There are two aspects to that. The first, and the one that I’ve mostly written about, is that … Continue reading →

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LSP Coming to Emacs?

Posted on 2017-05-05 by jcs

Those of you who follow the Emacs scene will remember that last year there was a big kerfuffle about whether or not GCC should export its AST so that Emacs, for instance, could use it to provide better syntactic and … Continue reading →

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Storing Secrets

Posted on 2017-05-04 by jcs

In my never ending crusade to move as many functions as possible into Emacs, I’ve lately been dealing with functions that require a user name and password. For example, part of the mbsync configuration that downloads my emails requires a … Continue reading →

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Arjen Wiersma’s Emacs Configuration

Posted on 2017-05-03 by jcs

I was trolling through the Emacs tweets when I saw one entitled “Emacs 25.2 Released” with a link to a video. I thought it was going to be a discussion of the new things in Emacs 25.21 but it turned … Continue reading →

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Blogs and Journals in Science

Posted on 2017-05-02 by jcs

Blog readers—and since you’re reading this, that includes you—appear to having been doing something right. At least according to Daniel Lakens, an experimental psychologist who publishes the blog The 20% Statistician. In an interesting post, Lakens argues that blogs have … Continue reading →

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Ogbe’s Literate Emacs Configuration

Posted on 2017-05-01 by jcs

Dennis Ogbe is an EE PhD student at Purdue whom I’ve written about before (1, 2, 3). He’s very good at leveraging Emacs and Org mode in his workflow, both in his studies and his blog. Recently, I saw this … Continue reading →

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SBCL 1.3.17

Posted on 2017-04-30 by jcs

I’ve been a little lax about keeping SBCL up to date but when I saw the announcement for SBCL 1.3.17, I downloaded, compiled, and installed it before I forgot. You can get your copy here. I always build from source … Continue reading →

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