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Holding NSA’s Feet To The Fire

Posted on 2023-12-25 by jcs

Senator Ron Wyden is on a tear. It’s probably not fair to describe him as the only legislator fighting for the fourth amendment in the face of fierce opposition from various law enforcement agencies but he’s certainly the most prominent. … Continue reading →

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A GTD Workflow

Posted on 2023-12-24 by jcs

Gopar, over at the Goparism YouTube channel has posted a video on how he uses Emacs Org mode and Org Roam as his GTD framework. For those not familiar with GTD it’s a methodology developed by David Allen in his … Continue reading →

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PDFs And Diffs In Emacs

Posted on 2023-12-23 by jcs

Derek Taylor over at DistroTube has a nice introduction to reading PDFs and doing diffs from within Emacs. As Taylor says, almost all of us have standalone applications to do these things but even if you don’t belong to the … Continue reading →

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Writing LaTeX In Emacs

Posted on 2023-12-22 by jcs

As many of you know, I have a long standing fascination with taking class notes in LaTeX using Emacs. This despite the fact that my days in the classroom are long over. Just a week ago, I wrote about laas, … Continue reading →

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Using Transient For Isearch

Posted on 2023-12-21 by jcs

Charles Choy has another great post documenting his never ending quest to make Emacs behave exactly the way he wishes. This post is about using Transient to call isearch. Virtually every Emacs user knows about isearch. It’s the fundamental say … Continue reading →

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Prot’s Literate Emacs Configuration

Posted on 2023-12-20 by jcs

Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) has a new way of managing his Emacs configuration. As you can guess from the above title, it’s a literate document based on Org-mode code blocks. He has a video up explaining his new configuation and how … Continue reading →

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Emacs Hooks

Posted on 2023-12-19 by jcs

Daniel Liden has a useful post on elementary hook functions. From the (Elisp) user perspective, there’s not a lot to know. All you need is One of more functions taking no arguments. These are called “hook functions”. A variable containing … Continue reading →

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Google Loses Its Users’ Data

Posted on 2023-12-18 by jcs

Some Google Drive users are reporting that they’ve lost up to 6 or more months of data. I know I should feel sorry for these people. If I were a better person, I would but all I can do is … Continue reading →

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Lem: An Alternative To Emacs?

Posted on 2023-12-17 by jcs

Fermin gave an interesting talk to the 2023 EmacsConf. The title of the talk was The Emacsen family, the design of an Emacs and the importance of Lisp. He starts with the premise that Lisp is the right language for … Continue reading →

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Bugs, Linux, and Open Source

Posted on 2023-12-16 by jcs

Millions of pixels have been sacrificed exclaiming the glories and greatness of open source. Most everybody but Microsoft agrees and even Microsoft seems to have come around lately. At least on paper. There is, to be sure, a lot to … Continue reading →

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