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Using Emacs To Convert Notes For Deft

Posted on 2011-10-09 by jcs

Yesterday I wrote about Vivek Haldar’s Deft patch that allowed him to integrate his previous notes into Deft. Recall that Deft uses the first line of a note as its subject and names the file for a note deft-XXX whereas … Continue reading →

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Deft Filenames

Posted on 2011-10-08 by jcs

I’ve written a couple of times about Deft, which I described as a lightweight alternative to Org Mode. I’m still not using it for the reasons that I gave in those posts but lots of people are. One of those … Continue reading →

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Inserting Quotation Marks In Emacs Revisited

Posted on 2011-10-07 by jcs

The other day, I wrote about Inserting Quotation Marks In Emacs Org Mode and I wrote a little bit of elisp to insert \ldquo{}\rdquo in the buffer and then place the point between the two quote commands. I remarked at … Continue reading →

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Steve Jobs

Posted on 2011-10-06 by jcs

I awoke this morning to the sad new that Steve Jobs had died. Of course, I was shocked but as Charlie Stross points out, I shouldn’t have been Once his illness became public knowledge his level of activity, already frenetic, … Continue reading →

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The Emacs interactive Special Form

Posted on 2011-10-05 by jcs

Xah Lee has an interesting post that taught me something I already knew. The problem that Lee deals with is how to write an Emacs command (that is, a function callable by, say, 【Meta+x】 and the function name) that is … Continue reading →

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A Cool Common Lisp Tip

Posted on 2011-10-04 by jcs

I wrote the other day about Zach Beane’s new Common Lisp Tips blog. Yesterday, he had a really nifty tip that solves a common problem. We’ve all had situations where we want to output something like Processed 1 file. or … Continue reading →

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Inserting Quotation Marks In Emacs Org Mode

Posted on 2011-10-03 by jcs

As I was writing yesterday’s post I started to enter \rdquo{} to get an opening double quotation mark for what seemed like the millionth time. I suddenly realized that this was really stupid and a waste of time so I … Continue reading →

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PostScript And PDF

Posted on 2011-10-02 by jcs

I’ve read several times that PDF is “just compressed PostScript” but I recently learned that that’s not true. David Evans has a nice article over at Adobe on PostScript vs. PDF. Evans starts off by describing what PostScript is and … Continue reading →

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Two Great New Lisp Blogs

Posted on 2011-10-01 by jcs

Recently, Zach Beane and stassats have started new blogs about Common Lisp and Slime. Beane, the well-known Xach, is writing the Common Lisp Tips blog, which promises a new Common Lisp tip every day. As of today, there are only … Continue reading →

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Emacs As A Lisp Machine

Posted on 2011-09-30 by jcs

Xah Lee has an update to his Emacs and Unicode Tips page that I’ve written about before on my old blog. This is a great reference that tells you how to deal with Unicode and UTF-8 in Emacs. One of … Continue reading →

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