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Running Emacs Lisp On Several Files

Posted on 2011-12-07 by jcs

Xah Lee as an instructive post on converting and scaling images with Emacs. Unlike him, I don’t often need to scale or convert even a single image, let alone many, but he does show an interesting technique to pass several … Continue reading →

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Drawing Key Sequences In Emacs (Updated)

Posted on 2011-12-06 by jcs

This is a sad story of my HTML ineptitude but one in which I eventually find the right solution. I’ve written several times (here, here, and here) about how I implemented Xah Lee’s trick of representing key sequences in a … Continue reading →

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Specifying Any Modifier Key In Emacs

Posted on 2011-12-05 by jcs

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a Xah Lee post that, among other things, mentioned how to set the hyper and super keys for use with Emacs. Lee uses them a lot because he has a bunch of … Continue reading →

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A History Of Unix

Posted on 2011-12-03 by jcs

Warren Toomey has a great article on The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix in the IEEE Sprectrum. Toomey runs the Unix Heritage Society that maintains a mailing list for those interested in Unix history and, most importantly, maintains … Continue reading →

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emacs follow-mode

Posted on 2011-12-01 by jcs

Xah Lee has a nice post on follow-mode. He describes how to take a wide frame, break it up into two or more horizontal windows, and then have the windows act as one large window into the buffer. That is, … Continue reading →

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Publishers And DRM

Posted on 2011-11-30 by jcs

Last week I wrote one of my semi-regular rants about the publishing industry and their bad choices. Yesterday, Charlie Stross, a prominent SF author (Accelerando, Glass House, Halting State, Rule 34, and others) wrote a provocative piece on publishers and … Continue reading →

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Emacs Markers

Posted on 2011-11-29 by jcs

In a comment to my Emacs comment-box Revisited post, Aaron showed me a nice way to deal with the boundaries of expanding regions. Recall that in that post I wanted to pad the first line of a comment out to … Continue reading →

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Emacs Align Functions

Posted on 2011-11-28 by jcs

Tim Visher has a new VimGolf in Emacs up. This time it’s a simple alignment problem using align-regexp, a function that we’ve talked about before. In this case he just used the simple align-regexp case and was done in about … Continue reading →

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Emacs comment-box Revisited

Posted on 2011-11-27 by jcs

Last week I wrote about Comment Boxes In Emacs and gave some examples of how the comment-box command provides an easy way to draw a box around a comment. The only problem is that I want the boxes to extend … Continue reading →

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Xah Lee On Inserting Brackets In Emacs

Posted on 2011-11-25 by jcs

Xah Lee has an interesting post on inserting bracket pairs in Emacs. This is exactly the same thing that I did using Key Chord Mode as I described in this post. The difference is that Lee uses Elisp code directly … Continue reading →

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