Author Archives: jcs

Reverting All Buffers to Branch State

Posted on 2015-02-18 by jcs

Handy: A neat way to get all of your buffers reverted to a branch's state, is to go to #magit and type 'g'. #emacs — Pericles Theodorou (@PericlesTheo) January 30, 2015

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Getting the Host Name of the Current Browser Page

Posted on 2015-02-18 by jcs

A while ago I wrote about coding some Elisp to grab the URL of the current Web page and turn it into an Org link. It doesn’t seem like it would reduce friction by that much but it really has … Continue reading →

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Password Contains Invalid Characters (Again)

Posted on 2015-02-17 by jcs

Devin Chalmers has some words of wisdom for startups: "Your password contains invalid characters." No, your startup contains incompetent engineers. — Devin Chalmers (@qwzybug) December 15, 2014 Nick Selby already told them but apparently they didn’t listen.

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Searching Org Files and Buffers

Posted on 2015-02-17 by jcs

Remember Karl Voit from the Sacha Chua chat that I wrote about previously? Voit collects data on just about every aspect of his life and stores it in an Org file. If you haven’t watched the chat yet, be sure … Continue reading →

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Making occur a Bit Smarter

Posted on 2015-02-16 by jcs

Abo-abo is still blogging up a storm and giving us a daily dose of great Elisp. Someone looking to amass a first rate Emacs configuration could do worse than simply grab abo-abo’s daily posts and integrate them into their .emacs … Continue reading →

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The NYT Workflow

Posted on 2015-02-15 by jcs

Most of you have probably figured out that I’m a workflow geek. I love reading about people’s workflow and how they optimize their daily tasks. Popular Mechanics has a great article on The New York Times workflow. Many people in … Continue reading →

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Open Emacs Buffers

Posted on 2015-02-14 by jcs

I’m so ashamed: Oh, wow. I had over 200 buffers open in #Emacs (15 day uptime). Didn't even notice. Buffer navigation w/ IBuffer / ido-switch-buffer rocks. — Gergely Nagy (@algernoone) February 6, 2015 Even though my uptime is measured in … Continue reading →

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TeX Tips

Posted on 2015-02-14 by jcs

John Cook, who’ve I’ve mentioned a few times here, has a nice Twitter feed called TeX Tips. Every weekday, he posts a TeX/LaTex tip. Mostly they’re things you’ve probably seen—although some surprised me—but they’re of great value to folks like … Continue reading →

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 2015-02-13 by jcs

The Stasi is a good point. The Stasi is what happens when a state tries to achieve total watchfullness. — Nic Ferrier (@nicferrier) January 18, 2015

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Org-Page

Posted on 2015-02-13 by jcs

If you’re looking for a static-page blogging engine that you can post to from Emacs, you should take a look at Calum MacRae’s post on blogging with org-page. MacRae writes about his setup in detail so that you can set … Continue reading →

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