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Google Reneges on Their Privacy Pledge

Posted on 2016-10-25 by jcs

If you were surprised by this This past summer Google quietly dropped its historic ban on merging Web browsing info with your name.https://t.co/TRgREtYvaO — Julia Angwin (@JuliaAngwin) October 21, 2016 you haven’t been paying attention. Google is in the business … Continue reading →

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Reproducible Research Webinar

Posted on 2016-10-24 by jcs

Back in June I wrote about A Complete Example of Reproducible Research with Org. One of the authors of that paper was Arnaud Legrand who has an excellent webinar on reproducible research. Sadly, the video of the talk is in … Continue reading →

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Org Mode for PhD Students

Posted on 2016-10-23 by jcs

It’s pretty much conventional wisdom that Org Mode is the killer app for Emacs. Even people who don’t use Emacs seem to be aware of that and, of course, there are various efforts underway to port Org to other editors. … Continue reading →

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Public Service Announcement

Posted on 2016-10-22 by jcs

pic.twitter.com/WKWGdZZo8m — Defective by Design (@endDRM) August 10, 2016

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reposition-window

Posted on 2016-10-21 by jcs

Irreal’s quest for world domination has been temporarily suspended due to the DDoS attack on Dyn. While we wait for the issue to get resolved, here’s a very nice offering from mbork (Marcin Borkowski). I use recenter-top-bottom (bound to Ctrl+l) … Continue reading →

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Redirecting eshell Output to Another Buffer

Posted on 2016-10-20 by jcs

This #emacs tip of the week: M-x eshell then type ls -lh >> #<foo> and see the command output be appended to the "foo" buffer! — Stathis Sideris (@stathissideris) October 18, 2016 is kind of cute but, of course, there … Continue reading →

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Setting a Prefix Argument

Posted on 2016-10-19 by jcs

Here’s a nice quickie from Grant Rettke. You probably won’t need this often but when you do, it’s just what you need.

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Merging with smerge

Posted on 2016-10-18 by jcs

I don’t often have occasion to resolve git merge conflicts so I never remember the details and end up changing things by hand. This tweet C-c ^ m (smerge-keep-mine)… Resolving conflicts with #emacs https://t.co/kNa6bDc2kG — (@milanthapa_) October 16, 2016 caught … Continue reading →

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Emacs 25.2 Coming Soon

Posted on 2016-10-17 by jcs

One of the things John Wiegley said he’d like to do when he took over leadership of Emacs development was to have more frequent releases. It looks as if things are on track: Eli Zaretskii: "I plan to release Emacs … Continue reading →

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comment-dwim vs. comment-line

Posted on 2016-10-16 by jcs

A few days ago I wrote about Artur Malabarba’s comment-line. That’s now in Emacs core and very useful. Xah Lee has an excellent post that compares comment-line and comment-dwim. That’s useful because the commands are very similar and it’s nice … Continue reading →

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