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A Cross Reference for the Figures in CLHS

Posted on 2015-01-19 by jcs

Jean-Philippe Paradis has added a cross reference to the figures in the Common Lisp HyperSpec to his Common Lisp Notes & Tips.

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Empty Your Cup

Posted on 2015-01-19 by jcs

Some sage advice from Sacha: It occurred to me that "Empty your cup" is good advice to give to people starting to learn Emacs. pic.twitter.com/j1OwCyBjC3 — Sacha Chua (@sachac) January 13, 2015

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Sleepwalking into Tyranny

Posted on 2015-01-18 by jcs

Nic Ferrier has a few words of his own on government snooping. This time from a British point of view. We appear to be sleep walking into a world where MI5 can constantly watch us. If you don't think this … Continue reading →

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Surprise!

Posted on 2015-01-18 by jcs

An internal CIA board has found that its officers had done nothing wrong by breaking into the computers of senate staffers who were investigating claims of CIA torture. If you’re surprised by this you haven’t been paying attention. The government … Continue reading →

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January Quicklisp

Posted on 2015-01-17 by jcs

The January Quicklisp distribution is out. Upgrade as usual with (ql:update-dist “quicklisp”) There are 21 new packages and a bunch of updates so you should upgrade the next time you have your Lisp open. It only takes a few seconds.

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Some Tips from mbork

Posted on 2015-01-16 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has a short list of Emacs configuration tips that you may find useful. All of these are documented, of course, but it can be notoriously hard to dig out information of this type. For example, one tip … Continue reading →

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Org Protocol

Posted on 2015-01-15 by jcs

Abo-abo over at (or emacs has been blogging up a storm. So much so that it’s hard to keep up. In a couple of recent posts, he describes how he interfaces his browser to Org mode. The idea is that … Continue reading →

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A Convert Reports on His Progress

Posted on 2015-01-14 by jcs

A year ago, Bailey Ling was a Vim user. Like many of us, he switched to Emacs and now he’s giving a progress report. Many of Ling’s long-held work flows have become victim to Emacs. For example, he used to … Continue reading →

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The Word versus LaTeX Paper Keeps on Giving

Posted on 2015-01-13 by jcs

The infamous Word versus LaTex paper that I wrote about previously has taken on a new life as a gag. Every instance of “Word” in the paper was replaced with “Emacs” and every instance of “LaTex” was replaced with “Vim.” … Continue reading →

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Word versus LaTeX: A Coda

Posted on 2015-01-12 by jcs

A short while ago I wrote about the Knauff & Nejasmic study claiming to show that when Academics are writing papers they are more efficient with Word than with LaTeX. That study was, in my and several others’ opinions, completely … Continue reading →

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