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Temporarily Changing the Dired Listing

Posted on 2016-07-09 by jcs

Here’s a nice tip from @goaoio on temporarily changing the dired listing. 'C-u M-x dired' to tweak the options of ls just for this dired. #emacs Sometimes I add 'h' for human readable. — ε (@goaoio) June 29, 2016 Xah … Continue reading →

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GNU Privacy Guard and Emacs

Posted on 2016-07-08 by jcs

Mickey has an excellent new post on using GnuPG from within Emacs. This is really easy to set up and it’s pretty much transparent once you do. I set it up years ago and until I read Mickey’s post, I’d … Continue reading →

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Directory-Local Variables

Posted on 2016-07-07 by jcs

Just in case there’s still anyone out there who isn’t following Artur Malabarba, he has a nice post on something that I had almost forgotten about. It turns out that you can set Emacs variables on a per directory basis. … Continue reading →

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A Reminder About Macro Counters

Posted on 2016-07-06 by jcs

Ben Maughan has a useful reminder about macro counters in Emacs. Although they can be very useful, most of us don’t use them often enough to internalize the details. I’m always glad to see posts like Maughan’s because it reminds … Continue reading →

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SBCL 1.3.7 Released

Posted on 2016-07-05 by jcs

The latest version of Steel Bank Common Lisp is out. This month’s release fixed a bug and introduced several optimizations. See the NEWS file for details. As usual, the release compiled without incident on my MacBook Pro and the regressions … Continue reading →

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The Light-Weightedness of Emacs

Posted on 2016-07-04 by jcs

Most of you know that I really, really love Emacs but it wouldn’t occur to me to describe it as “light weight.” For most of its life, a major complaint about Emacs was that it was so heavy weight. Who … Continue reading →

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Circuit Simulation with Org Mode

Posted on 2016-07-03 by jcs

Tiago Oliveira Weber has a wonderful example of using Org mode with a spice application to do circuit simulation. It used to be that when Weber was preparing a report on a project, he opened a spice application in another … Continue reading →

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Tutorial Update (Week of June 26)

Posted on 2016-07-02 by jcs

I’ve been following two Emacs/Org tutorial video series from Mike Zamansky and Rainer König. Both series are being updated regularly and worth following by all Emacs and Org mode users. Zamansky added three more videos to his Using Emacs Series. … Continue reading →

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Knuth’s First Lecture

Posted on 2016-07-01 by jcs

Back in November of 1969 a young Don Knuth gave his first lecture as a Stanford professor. The lecture was on a new field in Computer Science called Analysis of Algorithms, a field that Knuth invented and named. Recently, Knuth … Continue reading →

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Relative Dates with Org Mode

Posted on 2016-06-30 by jcs

It’s easy to forget how flexible Org mode date entry can be. Here’s a helpful reminder from @goaoio. Reschedule an org subtree to the 42th Sunday in the future with 'C-c C-s 42sun'. #orgmode #orgmodeexample — ε (@goaoio) June 10, … Continue reading →

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