Author Archives: jcs

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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Killing dired Buffers

Posted on 2015-03-29 by jcs

Here’s a nice tip on how to get rid of a dired buffer by killing it rather than burying it. I really like that C-u q in dired kills the whole buffer. #emacs — Marco Wahl (@marcowahlsoft) February 17, 2015

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A Bit of Wisdom from John Carmack

Posted on 2015-03-29 by jcs

Fighting down my urge for a terse binary encoding and embracing s-expressions for network transport is helping a lot with development. — John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) March 17, 2015 For an wonderful and revealing example of using s-expressions for data interchange, … Continue reading →

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Finally, Some Sanity

Posted on 2015-03-28 by jcs

I’ve written before (1, 2, 3, 4) about the insanity that is the open plan office. One would think that it would have withered and died by now but, sadly, it seems as robust as ever. At least the successful … Continue reading →

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Do The Impossible or You’re Incompetent

Posted on 2015-03-27 by jcs

A customer walks into a bar. He asks for a beer made out of wine. The project manager agrees. Both question the bartender's competence. — Daniel Méndez (@mendezfe) March 22, 2015

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How to Install an Info File

Posted on 2015-03-27 by jcs

I just wrote about implementing abo-abo’s solution for having multiple Info buffers and in particular his using the gcl Info file as a substitute for the Common Lisp HyperSpec. I really wanted to try that out so I downloaded the … Continue reading →

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