Author Archives: jcs

Some Comment-DWIM Tricks

Posted on 2016-04-14 by jcs

Raimon Grau over at puntoblogspot has a really useful quick tip on a couple of comment-dwim features that I didn’t know about. He shows how to Comment out a blank line. Remove an inline comment. If you use comment-dwim (bound … Continue reading →

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Debugging

Posted on 2016-04-13 by jcs

Via Jean-Philippe Paradis. So true. I remember debugging a problem that disappeared as soon as I put a printf in the code to see what was happening. Typical code debugging. pic.twitter.com/z764dhyJ5Z — Ryan Houdek (@sonicadvance1) March 5, 2016

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An Example of Why Reproducible Research Matters

Posted on 2016-04-12 by jcs

Dennis Ogbe, whom I’ve written about before, has a nice example of why reproducible research matters. If you’ve read those previous posts you know that Ogbe is a PhD student in Electrical Engineering at Purdue. As such he reads papers … Continue reading →

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Using Org Mode Displays for Presentations

Posted on 2016-04-11 by jcs

If you’ve watched any of Howard Abrams’ excellent videos, you may have wondered, as others have, how he gets the nice effects when he displays Org buffers. Wonder no more. Abrams has posted an explanation of how he gets those … Continue reading →

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A Reminder from Kontra

Posted on 2016-04-10 by jcs

Enough is enough, California. My quarterly reminder to citizens of California: you'll be held responsible for Dianne Feinstein. — Kontra (@counternotions) April 9, 2016

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75 Free Privacy Tools

Posted on 2016-04-10 by jcs

Richard Patterson wrote to me about my article on privacy tools and suggested I take a look at his offering, 75+ free tools to protect your privacy online. As Patterson says, you won’t need all these tools but you should … Continue reading →

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A Hydra for the Org Agenda View Dispatcher

Posted on 2016-04-09 by jcs

Abo-abo has a great post that demonstrates a hydra for the Org Agenda view menu. Instead of the ugly static menu, you get a beautiful hydra that shows you the state of the toggles and other information. It’s that last … Continue reading →

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Emacs and Outlook

Posted on 2016-04-08 by jcs

I’m in the happy position of not needing—indeed never have been needing—to use Outlook for my email. Others, sadly, are not so lucky. Karl Voit points to a remedy that allows you to compose your email in Emacs and send … Continue reading →

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Improved HTML Capturing with Org

Posted on 2016-04-07 by jcs

If, like me, you use Org mode for your note taking and record keeping, you’ve probably found yourself occasionally needing to capture data from a Web page. You can already to that but many browsers don’t handle the conversion from … Continue reading →

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Any Option You Like

Posted on 2016-04-06 by jcs

This clearly falls in the different strokes for different folks category but it would make me want to stab myself in the eye. I wish #emacs had a plugin that noticed the keystrokes didn’t make sense in focussed window1 but … Continue reading →

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