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Emacs 25.2 RC1
Emacs 25.2 is on its way. Nicolas Petton has announced that Emacs 25.2 RC1 is out.
Imenu and Use-package
A couple of years ago, I wrote about Jordon Biondo’s gist that allowed imenu to locate use-package blocks in your .emacs or init.el files. It’s really useful and I recommended it to everyone who spent any time editing their Emacs … Continue reading
Scaling Git at Microsoft
Brian Harry has a fascinating post that discusses Microsoft’s use of Git. At first blush that may seem profoundly uninteresting but consider: for various reasons Microsoft maintains very few repositories so, for example, all of Windows core is in a … Continue reading
Happy Birthday Ken
Today is Ken Thompson’s birthday. There are few people in our industry that have had a bigger effect. Unix, regular expressions, chess, UTF-8, Go: the list goes on and on. He’s a giant and at 74 still going strong.
Choosing Emacs
Chris Siebenmann has made up his mind1. He was deliberating whether or not to give up Emacs and switch to Vim. He does a lot of sysadmin work and prefers Vim for that (although I think Tramp would go a … Continue reading
Dumb Phones and the New Luddites
Vlad Savov1 over at The Verge has another of those annoying articles in which he complains that smart phones are too distracting and considers dropping back to a “dumb phone.” I’ve seen a lot of articles like this lately and, … Continue reading
The auth-source Manual
Today, I saw this amusing, but doubtlessly true, quote in a tweet "90% of Emacs users have unusual setups and the remaining 10% are really unusual" — https://t.co/F1w7WrbrTh #emacs — Brad Collins (@deerpig) February 1, 2017 The link points to … Continue reading
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Mobile Org 1.7.1
Here’s some good news Finally, MobileOrg received an update! #orgmode pic.twitter.com/yM2fENjfVI — Toon Claes (@to1ne) January 31, 2017 The iOS version of Mobile Org has long been moribund so it’s great to see it being updated. Earlier this month, I … Continue reading
Identifying an Emacs Commit
Marcin Borkowski (mbork) posted a handy bit of knowledge that I didn’t know about. If you’re one of the public benefactors willing to use the development versions of Emacs and report the bugs you find, you’ll want to submit the … Continue reading
Emacs Quotes
I don’t have anything interesting to say today so here’s some amusing Emacs quotes for your entertainment. I especially like Sean McGrathi’s.