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Animation of Using eshell to cd into Another Machine

Posted on 2016-10-15 by jcs

Last month I wrote about using cd to ssh into a remote machine. Today, I came across this animated Gif from Bodil that shows the process in action Yeah, so when vim users are all "sshing to a remote and … Continue reading →

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Joel Spolsky on Open Offices

Posted on 2016-10-14 by jcs

If you’ve been around here for awhile, you know my feelings about open offices: despite the self-serving cant from management, they’re really about saving money. Everyone who does creative work knows how devastating the constant interruptions can be on productivity … Continue reading →

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Dennis Ritchie

Posted on 2016-10-13 by jcs

The Internet appears to be on fire with news that Dennis Ritchie has died. Folks, that was 5 years ago. How can you not know this? Ritchie was one our leading lights and his legacy is everywhere within our industry … Continue reading →

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Comment Line in Emacs 25

Posted on 2016-10-12 by jcs

A couple of years ago, I wrote about a nice bit of Elisp from Artur Malabarba that deals with commenting and uncommenting whole line(s). It’s sort of like comment-dwim except that it deals with whole lines. Recently, Malabarba resumed blogging … Continue reading →

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How a Non-Developer Uses Emacs

Posted on 2016-10-11 by jcs

Charles-H. Schulz is not a developer—although he is technically proficient. He describes himself as specializing in literature, history and philosophy. He’s also an Emacs user. I find that interesting because I’m always fascinated with how people who aren’t writing code … Continue reading →

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C

Posted on 2016-10-10 by jcs

More and more often, these days, I see the opinion expressed that C is a dead, dangerous, stupid language and no one uses it anymore. For me, that’s like having someone start a discussion by saying ”As everyone knows the … Continue reading →

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A Video Tutorial for undo-tree

Posted on 2016-10-09 by jcs

The other day I wrote about undo-tree and wished for a video on how to use it. Mike Zamansky came to the rescue with a very nice video expanation of undo-tree. Really, this package is extraordinarily useful and it’s nice … Continue reading →

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Stop Emacs from Writing package-selected-packages into init.el

Posted on 2016-10-08 by jcs

A new minor annoyance in Emacs 25.1 is that Emacs maintains a variable called package-selected-packages that maintains a list of packages that you have specifically specified. This is used to handle dependencies on package deletion as well as making it … Continue reading →

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The Wages of Sin

Posted on 2016-10-08 by jcs

Report: Helping intelligence agencies secretly spy on your customers will cost your company $1,000,000,000. https://t.co/SDVD8JOrei — Edward Snowden (@Snowden) October 7, 2016

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Hide Files in Dired Listing

Posted on 2016-10-07 by jcs

I like to see all files in my Dired listings but lots of folks have a more minimalist mindset and would prefer not to see certain files. Things like backup files, .DS_STORE (on MacOS), or even all dot files are … Continue reading →

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