Author Archives: jcs

A Simple Programming Praxis Solution in Elisp

Posted on 2017-04-07 by jcs

Programming Praxis has a simple problem that is meant to explore how easy your favorite programming language makes it to work with strings. The problem is to double every blank in a string. That’s pretty simple but some languages make … Continue reading →

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Mu4e Configuration

Posted on 2017-04-06 by jcs

This post is the latest in my series on installing and configuring mu4e on a Mac and using Apple as a mail provider. As I wrote in my post on mbsync configuration, setting up mu4e is simple by comparison. On … Continue reading →

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Configuring mbsync for Apple Mail

Posted on 2017-04-05 by jcs

As a first step in realizing my goal of running mu4e as my email client, I had to get mbsync running. Mbsync is a process that communicates with one or more IMAP servers to keep your email clients in sync. … Continue reading →

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Summer!

Posted on 2017-04-04 by jcs

As many of you know, the Irreal International Headquarters is in Tampa, Florida. That means that this Kontra tweet resonated: Feeling good about yourself right now? Remember, soon it'll be summer…hot, humid, sticky summer…with mosquitoes. — Kontra (@counternotions) April 2, … Continue reading →

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Mu4e at Irreal

Posted on 2017-04-03 by jcs

Ever since I read Ben Maughan’s post on mastering your inbox with mu4e and Org mode back in 2015, I’ve been insanely jealous of his method and of his use of mu4e for dealing with emails directly in Emacs. Right … Continue reading →

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Updating save-receipt-link

Posted on 2017-04-02 by jcs

This is tax season here in the United States. My Org-based tax record keeping enabled me to send everything to my accountant as soon as I had all the proper forms from employers, banks, and other sources of income to … Continue reading →

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AI Loosely Defined

Posted on 2017-04-01 by jcs

Since this is April 1st and no post will be taken seriously anyway, I offer this piece of wisdom, which Jean-Philippe Paradis retweeted: by today's definition, y=mx+b is an artificial intelligence bot that can tell you where a line is … Continue reading →

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The Emacs rx Macro

Posted on 2017-03-31 by jcs

I’ve long been aware of the rx macro in Emacs as a way of lispifying regular expressions but it always seemed too complicated to learn. Now Francis Murillo (I think) has published an excellent post on using the rx macro. … Continue reading →

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The Richness of ibuffer

Posted on 2017-03-30 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has a handy reminder about the richness of ibuffer. It really is very flexible and it’s worth reading the help as mbork suggests.

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Abo-abo on Implementing a C++ IDE on Emacs

Posted on 2017-03-29 by jcs

A couple of days ago, I wrote about Baris Yuksel’s videos on making an Emacs C++ IDE. Today, I saw a post by abo-abo on how he improved his Emacs C++ environment. Abo-abo says he was motivated to improve his … Continue reading →

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