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Zamansky 18: Narrowing and iedit

Posted on 2016-11-03 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has his latest video up. This time it’s on iedit and narrowing. For narrowing, he uses Artur Malabarba’s narrow-or-widen-dwim package. I love this package and you should definitely be using it too. It makes narrowing really easy and … Continue reading →

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The EOS Org Mode Configuration

Posted on 2016-11-02 by jcs

Yesterday, I wrote about Lee Hinman’s EOS Emacs configuration and mentioned that because the configuration is factored into modules, it’s easy to adapt them to our own configurations. An example of this is Hinman’s Org Mode configuration. It’s a treasure … Continue reading →

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Living in Emacs

Posted on 2016-11-01 by jcs

As you know, I’m fond of the notion of living in Emacs to the greatest extent possible. For me, that’s an ongoing process much like a Japanese garden: a process that is always seeking perfection but that is never complete. … Continue reading →

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Overlays

Posted on 2016-10-31 by jcs

Xah Lee has an interesting post on overlays. Overlays are not something that a user needs to worry about; they are a means of altering the display of certain areas of a buffer and are therefore a concern only for … Continue reading →

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Dennis Ritchie Day

Posted on 2016-10-30 by jcs

Tim O’Reilly declared today, October 30, as Dennis Ritchie Day. That was five years ago but nonetheless we should all pause and consider how much Ritchie affects our life and work. He was a giant and we should give thanks … Continue reading →

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Zamansky Discusses Miscellaneous Packages

Posted on 2016-10-30 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has a new video up. This time it’s about a few of the miscellaneous packages he uses. He covers Highlight line mode Beacon mode Hungry delete mode Expand region I use two of those and the others are … Continue reading →

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How to Fix Swiper Search Failure

Posted on 2016-10-29 by jcs

I woke up yesterday and started working only to become sad. As soon as I tried to do a swiper search I got the error Wrong type argument: window-live-p I’ve come to depend on swiper and hated to be without … Continue reading →

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Consumers Win One

Posted on 2016-10-28 by jcs

Yesterday, in my post about AT&T, Time Warner, and the Iron Law of Data Collection, I complained that in all whining about what an unfair advantage AT&T/Time Warner would have in advertising, little notice was taken of the fact that … Continue reading →

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The Iron Law Strikes Again

Posted on 2016-10-27 by jcs

It’s been a while since I’ve written about the Iron Law of Data Collection. That’s the idea that when the Government collects data, regardless of the stated rationale, there will inevitably be mission creep that sees the data being used … Continue reading →

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A Literate Programming Example with Org Mode

Posted on 2016-10-26 by jcs

Arne Babenhauserheide has posted a nice example of literate programming with Org mode. It’s a bare-bones example but shows what you can do including stitching code blocks together. Using Org mode for literate programming probably isn’t as powerful as something … Continue reading →

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