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The Org Mode Category Property

Posted on 2016-12-19 by jcs

One of the nice features of the Org Mode agenda is that it lists the file the agenda item came from at the left of each item. That makes it easy to see what the item is about. For instance, … Continue reading →

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Task Dependency in Org Mode

Posted on 2016-12-18 by jcs

Karl Voit has an excellent post on he handles dependencies between Org mode tasks. The post is reminiscent of his chat with Sacha Chua in which he explains how he uses yasnippet to automate complex workflows. I wrote about that … Continue reading →

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Always Encrypt

Posted on 2016-12-17 by jcs

Here’s a piece of essential advice Never trust any company with your #privacy, always #encrypt. https://t.co/X08TMfhzL6 — privacytools.io (@privacytoolsIO) December 15, 2016 If you follow the links, you end up at this CNN Tech story about Evernote changing their terms … Continue reading →

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Emacs Regular Expressions

Posted on 2016-12-16 by jcs

Jamie Zawinski notwithstanding, I find regular expressions extraordinarily powerful and useful. Most of us in software engineering use them daily and almost all editors support them. One of the complaints I hear all the time is that Emacs regular expressions … Continue reading →

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Org Mode 9.0.2

Posted on 2016-12-15 by jcs

Another Org update is available. It’s already on Melpa if that’s how use handle upgrades. #emacs #orgmode Org 9.0.2 is out. Enjoy! — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) December 14, 2016

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Maintenance Window

Posted on 2016-12-15 by jcs

Starting at 0900 EST this morning, Irreal’s hosting provider will be upgrading equipment so access may be intermittent. The provider expects that everything will be back to normal within 24 hours.

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Resolving Merge Conflicts with magit-ediff

Posted on 2016-12-14 by jcs

A while back I was whining about never remembering how to resolve a merge conflict and took note of thapakazi’s recommendation to use smerge. In the comments, Irreal regular Phil strongly urged me to get comfortable with ediff and use … Continue reading →

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Another Zotero Workflow

Posted on 2016-12-13 by jcs

The other day, I wrote about Michael Behr’s scientific writing workflow that is centered around Zotero, Emacs, and Org mode. Here’s another example of a Zotero workflow, this time from Nick Judd. Like Behr, Judd collects and manages reference papers … Continue reading →

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Running Multiple Emacs Servers

Posted on 2016-12-12 by jcs

Tycho Garen has an interesting use case. Because he uses a single laptop to work on many projects, he wanted a way to have separate Emacs instances so that his buffers don’t get mixed up between projects. That’s easy enough … Continue reading →

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Extreme Buffers

Posted on 2016-12-11 by jcs

If you tend to obsess over the number of open Emacs buffers, worrying about performance, here’s some good news "Operation finished; killed 543 buffers" There's about 400 left still. #Emacs at 29+ days uptime. Still snappy and responsive. — Gergely … Continue reading →

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