Author Archives: jcs

Emacs and Vi

Posted on 2016-08-07 by jcs

Al Williams over at Hackaday has a post in which he discusses the Emacs/Vi holy war and looks at the merits of each editor. It’s interesting in the way that these posts always are but I think he misses the … Continue reading →

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New Video in OrgMode Tutorial Series

Posted on 2016-08-06 by jcs

Rainer König has posted his latest video in the OrgMode Tutorial series. This time it’s about exporting from Org mode. König begins by remarking that he rarely uses this facility, which surprised me. It surprised me because I am always … Continue reading →

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Zamansky on Elpy and YASnippet

Posted on 2016-08-05 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has posted his latest Using Emacs video. This time the subject is Elpy and YASnippet. In his last video, Zamansky said he doesn’t use Elpy because it’s overkill for his purposes and also because he thought it was … Continue reading →

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Keeping Emacs and Packages in Sync Across a Team

Posted on 2016-08-04 by jcs

Lakeyosemit asks an interesting question on the Emacs reddit. He says he and his team collaborate using literate programming and reproducible research with Emacs and Org mode. Recently, they’ve encountered a problem where certain experiments weren’t reproducible by all team … Continue reading →

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Making Parent Directories Automatically

Posted on 2016-08-03 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski, mbork, posted a handy snippet of Elisp to automatically create parent directories if they don’t already exist. It’s similar to mkdir -p in that if intermediate directories don’t already exist they are created for you. That turns out … Continue reading →

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SICP in Info

Posted on 2016-08-02 by jcs

Those of you who have been around for a while know that I consider Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) one of the best—if not the best—computer science books ever written. I was an experienced software engineer when I … Continue reading →

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Org Template for Specification Documents

Posted on 2016-08-01 by jcs

Karsten Schmidt published a really nice template for producing great looking specification documents. The result looks like this. Here is the Org document that produced that output. The whole project, including the CSS style sheet is on GitHub. You may … Continue reading →

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Searching all Opened Buffers

Posted on 2016-07-31 by jcs

Abo-abo has a post on swiper-all that everyone using swiper should read. It turns out that there’s a command called swiper-all that will perform the swiper search on all opened buffers. That is, on all buffers associated with a file. … Continue reading →

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Suggest

Posted on 2016-07-30 by jcs

Wilfred Hughes has contributed a cute and potentially useful package that he calls suggest. The idea is that you’re looking for an Elisp function to perform a particular calculation or transformation but don’t know the function’s name. Suggest asks you … Continue reading →

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How to Get Started in Security

Posted on 2016-07-29 by jcs

Parisa Tabriz has a nice post on how to get started as a security engineer. She does mention some resources but the post is not really a check list of things you should do and sites you should visit. Rather, … Continue reading →

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