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Britain Too

Posted on 2015-04-04 by jcs

It turns out that it’s not just the U.S. Britain, too, has bozos in charge of keeping us safe (via Nic Ferrier): Tories plan porn site age checks http://t.co/mftZlYDrHq <- more unicorn-farming fantasies from the techno-illiterate — Simon Phipps (@webmink) … Continue reading →

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No Shame

Posted on 2015-04-04 by jcs

FBI Director James Comey just hates it that he’s not able to snoop on us at will. His shameless invocation of the 4 Horsemen descends into self-parody. Sadly, his message resonates with some of our more weak minded representatives, one … Continue reading →

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Writing an Emacs Major Mode

Posted on 2015-04-03 by jcs

Wilfred Hughes has a nice post on writing a major mode for a new language. As Hughes demonstrates, it’s pretty easy to get started but there’s lots of details and nooks and crannies to worry about. His post shows how … Continue reading →

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Emacs and Exchange Web Services

Posted on 2015-04-02 by jcs

For those of you condemned for past sins to use the Exchange calendar system, this can help you keep things in the family. Actually it’s an Emacs interface for the entire Exchange Web Services API. Seems like it could be … Continue reading →

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Engine Mode

Posted on 2015-04-02 by jcs

How often have you wanted to Google some term in the document you’re working on, or look up the documentation for a function? Many of us have a few Elisp functions to do this but you end up with a … Continue reading →

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Keeping the Minibuffer Cursor Out of the Prompt

Posted on 2015-04-01 by jcs

Have you ever been annoyed when editing in the minibuffer and you accidently move the cursor into the prompt? If so, here’s a tip from Xah Lee on how to avoid it.

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SBCL 1.2.10

Posted on 2015-04-01 by jcs

SBCL 1.2.10 is out and available at the usual place. This month’s release is mainly bug fixes, although there is one enhancement. You can get all the details from the NEWS page. As usual, the system built and ran the … Continue reading →

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News From the Emacs vs. Vim Front

Posted on 2015-03-31 by jcs

Via reddit: an oddly satisfying exchange.

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Org Capture Video

Posted on 2015-03-31 by jcs

Jonathan Magen recently gave a talk to the New York Emacs Meetup group on using Org capture. His setup is a little different from mine so it was interesting to see how he did things. If you’re an Emacs user … Continue reading →

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Hunting for Bugs in init.el

Posted on 2015-03-30 by jcs

If you’re an Emacs user and have a non-trivial .emacs or init.el you have almost certainly run into the situation where you make a change or upgrade a package or Emacs and things stop working. I see questions about how … Continue reading →

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