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Centering Text In Emacs

Posted on 2012-02-09 by jcs

I was watching another one of Kurt Schwehr’s Emacs videos and came across something I didn’t know (or at least something I’d forgotten). You can center text on the line with 【Meta+o Meta+s】. By default it will center the line … Continue reading →

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More Org Header Searching

Posted on 2012-02-08 by jcs

The little Org-mode header searching functions that I wrote about in Finding Org Headers And Links turned out to be pretty useful so I added another one. This function is like find-all-org-headers except that it limits the search to those … Continue reading →

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A Short Coda To Yesterday’s Post

Posted on 2012-02-07 by jcs

Yesterday I wrote about Finding Org Headers And Links and gave some Elisp functions to aid in searching for them. Today, my bank statement came and I entered information from the statement into my Org tax file. The tax file … Continue reading →

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Org Mode Video

Posted on 2012-02-07 by jcs

Looking through the ErgoEmacs Google+ Page, I found this post about Kurt Schwehr’s video on Org Mode. It’s a nice video that covers some of the basics of Org Mode and Babel. It’s just shy of 30 minutes so he … Continue reading →

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Finding Org Headers And Links

Posted on 2012-02-06 by jcs

Today I was looking through Xah Lee’s ErgoEmacs Google+ Page (there’s a ton of interesting stuff there—you should check it out) when I came across this post in which someone asks how to find links in an Org mode buffer. … Continue reading →

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Lexical Binding In Emacs

Posted on 2012-02-05 by jcs

A while ago in Lexical Scoping In Emacs Lisp I wrote that Emacs 24 will (finally) introduce lexical binding. Trawling through the EmacsWiki today I came across a page, Dynamic Binding Vs Lexical Binding, that describes the differences between the … Continue reading →

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The Solution To Piracy

Posted on 2012-02-04 by jcs

Paul Tassi has a nice aritcle in Forbes entitled You Will Never Kill Piracy, and Piracy Will Never Kill You. In it, he makes an observation that I think, while common, is right on the mark. That observation is that … Continue reading →

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Does Elisp Suck?

Posted on 2012-02-03 by jcs

One of the links from the CategoryCode page that I wrote about yesterday is the Why Does Elisp Suck page. The idea is to give people a place to be grumpy about Elisp. My first thought was that, really, Elisp … Continue reading →

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Learning Elisp Idioms

Posted on 2012-02-02 by jcs

I’ve said before that Emacs Lisp is pretty much like any other Lisp except for its library, which is specialized for editing tasks. One of the things I like about Xah Lee’s Emacs Lisp Tutorial is that it doesn’t concern … Continue reading →

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TSA: So Incompetent It Surprises Even Me

Posted on 2012-02-01 by jcs

We here at Irreal, like almost everyone else in the world, are not fans of the Transportation Security Administration. Their ability to combine heavy-handedness with incompetence exceeds even that of the typical DMV office. Still, the sheer assclownery of their … Continue reading →

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