Author Archives: jcs

Using Reeder

Posted on 2011-08-10 by jcs

It’s been almost two months since I started using Reeder and I was thinking that I should write a review. Fortunately, Angel over at Apple Casts has already taken care of that for me. He does a very nice job … Continue reading →

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Solarized On Emacs

Posted on 2011-08-09 by jcs

Unlike many hackers, I don’t care for a dark-themed Emacs so I use the basic black on white screen. Lately this scheme has begun to feel overly bright and I thought I would try some lower contrast colors. I’ve browsed … Continue reading →

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Let Emacs Make Your Scripts Executable

Posted on 2011-08-08 by jcs

Because I like to automate things, I write a lot of shell scripts. Sometimes it’s just some simple shell code, other times the script loads and executes a Scheme program. Almost every time I do this, I forget to set … Continue reading →

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SICP Under Attack?

Posted on 2011-08-07 by jcs

Vedant Kumar has a provocative post entitled SICP is Under Attack in which he laments the abandonment of SICP by several universities and especially by Berkeley, where he is a EE/CS student. Berkeley, it turns out, is replacing SICP with … Continue reading →

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Desktop Gmail Gets A Preview Pane

Posted on 2011-08-06 by jcs

Back in July I wrote that I preferred reading Gmail on my iPad even when I was home and had my iMac available. That’s because the iPad Gmail has a preview pane. If you haven’t used it, it doesn’t sound … Continue reading →

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The Emacs Info Apropos Command

Posted on 2011-08-05 by jcs

I’m a longtime Unix programmer. I started before Linux or FreeBSD and if you count Xenix, I programmed on versions as early as System III. As a result, I came to view the man page as the sine qua non … Continue reading →

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Sum Of Two Integers

Posted on 2011-08-04 by jcs

A couple of days ago, I wrote about upgrading to Clozure Lisp 1.7 and remarked that I should try it out with a miniproject, perhaps from Programming Praxis. I went over there and found the Sum of Two Integers problem, … Continue reading →

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Some More Emacs Tips

Posted on 2011-08-03 by jcs

Gurmeet Manku shares some Emacs Tips n Tricks for Everybody on his homepage. A lot of these will be familiar to most Emacs users and some are things I wouldn’t want to do but it’s a nice list of things … Continue reading →

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Clozure Lisp 1.7 Is Out

Posted on 2011-08-02 by jcs

I haven’t been doing very much Common Lisp programming lately but I noticed that Clozure Common Lisp 1.7 has just been released so I upgraded. I always like to do a (rebuild-ccl :full t) when I install a new version … Continue reading →

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Putting Shell Output In The Current Buffer

Posted on 2011-08-01 by jcs

I’ve long used 【Meta+|】 to pipe a region to a shell command. I use it all the time to pipe troff input to groff and display the results with gxditview. Recently I learned that if you specify a prefix arg … Continue reading →

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