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Emacs Redux on Avy

Posted on 2015-07-21 by jcs

I’ve been a fan of ace-jump-mode ever since I saw Magnar Sveen’s outstanding video on jumping around. Development on the package has gone dormant but abo-abo came to the rescue with avy. I’ve written about avy previously and agree with … Continue reading →

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Emacs Zen

Posted on 2015-07-20 by jcs

Bryan Roberts over at Soul Physics has an interesting Githup repository, called Emacs Zen, that shows how to set up Emacs on OS X as a LaTeX/Markdown/HTML/CSS/JavaScript system. If you want an Emacs installation geared for writing, his repository has … Continue reading →

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Tiny

Posted on 2015-07-19 by jcs

Eric James Michael Ritz has an excellent post on another of abo-abo’s great packages.

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Ubiquitous Encryption

Posted on 2015-07-19 by jcs

Bruce Schneier has an update on the NSA’s XKEYSCORE program. As usual with Schneier’s writing, it’s an interesting and informative read. What I liked most, though, was this observation at the end Ubiquitous encryption is the bane of listeners worldwide, … Continue reading →

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Moxie Marlinspike

Posted on 2015-07-18 by jcs

I’ve written many times about the need to make email encryption accessible to Aunt Millie (see here, here, and here for example). Sadly, it’s a really hard problem. Now, maybe there’s some hope. The Wall Street Journal has an interesting … Continue reading →

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Associating ielm with a Buffer

Posted on 2015-07-17 by jcs

Another handy tip from Wilfred Hughes: Today's hidden Emacs gem: pressing C-c C-b in an ielm buffer lets you associate it with a buffer, so you can inspect buffer-local variables. — Wilfred Hughes (@_wilfredh) June 7, 2015

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The EFF’s Most Important Cases

Posted on 2015-07-17 by jcs

This is the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s 25 anniversary. ars technica celebrated that anniversary with a nice article on the EFF’s most influential cases from its first 25 years. The takeaway from the article is that the EFF has been fighting … Continue reading →

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There is No Internet of Things

Posted on 2015-07-16 by jcs

A useful corollary to There is No Cloud. There is no Internet of Things, only other people's computers in your house. — Jacob H-A (@j4cob) July 15, 2015 In many ways, this is worse. Who knows what all those computers … Continue reading →

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The Emacs C-x 4 Bindings

Posted on 2015-07-16 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has a very nice review of the【Ctrl+x 4】key bindings. Most of us learned—or at least read about—those when we started with Emacs but probably forgot about them because they were too esoteric for us then. That’s where … Continue reading →

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Magit 2.1.0 Summary

Posted on 2015-07-15 by jcs

Over at LWN.net, Nathan Willis has a nice summary of the Magit 2.1.0 features. Obviously he doesn’t cover all the features or even all the new features but it’s worth reading for getting an idea what’s in the latest release. … Continue reading →

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