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Red Meat Friday: Latex vs. Word

Posted on 2023-05-26 by jcs

The minions hate Word even more than they hate dark themes so they insisted I run with this: when a mathematician says they prefer writing with word over latex pic.twitter.com/YJTVoln0iJ — Anthony Bonato (@Anthony_Bonato) May 19, 2023 Like last week’s … Continue reading →

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Elfeed-webkit

Posted on 2023-05-25 by jcs

I just stumbled across a post by Fritz Grabo about his package elfeed-webkit. When I first saw it, I thought it was interesting and worth a look. After reading more about it, I knew I had to install it. That … Continue reading →

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Emacs Badges

Posted on 2023-05-24 by jcs

As far as I know, it started with this reddit post. It was a request for a “built with Emacs” badge. Those badges were the type of thing you used to see on Web sites. I’m pretty sure I had … Continue reading →

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Emacs Elements on Emacs Regular Expressions

Posted on 2023-05-23 by jcs

Over at Emacs Elements there’s a nice video that explores Emacs regular expressions. One the one hand, virtually everyone hates Emacs regular expressions and wishes that Emacs used Perl compatible regexes instead. On the other hand, a case can be … Continue reading →

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The Story of Mel

Posted on 2023-05-22 by jcs

There’s a charming piece of foundation lore that every programmer in my cohort read and admired: The Story of Mel. Even when I was writing assembly language exclusively, the story was about a bygone era and techniques that no one … Continue reading →

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Debugging With Print

Posted on 2023-05-21 by jcs

Álvaro Ramírez has a guilty secret: he sometimes debugs code by inserting print statements into it. I was really happy to see his post because it’s a guilty secret that we share. Debuggers and similar tools are great and really … Continue reading →

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Emacs Keyboard Macros

Posted on 2023-05-20 by jcs

There’s another nice video over at Emacs Elements. This time it’s about using keyboard macros in Emacs. Keyboard macros really are a super power and it’s worth spending a few minutes learning some of the details. Most of us know … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: The Law of Unintended Consequences

Posted on 2023-05-19 by jcs

When I added this item to my blog queue, I marked it as a Red Meat Friday post but now that I’m actually writing it, I’m having second thoughts. That’s because there’s nothing really controversial here. Everyone agrees—or should agree—with … Continue reading →

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Org Footnote Assistant

Posted on 2023-05-18 by jcs

Andrea Lazzarini has an interesting, small package to help with footnote creation and editing in Org buffers. The package offers some amenities such as easily moving between footnotes but, to me, the major win is displaying or editing a footnote … Continue reading →

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A Slight Isearch Improvement

Posted on 2023-05-17 by jcs

Today’s post is a quick and simple tip from Zachary Kanfer on improving isearch. He likes the way isearch finds its results incrementally but is unhappy with the lack of context concerning the number of results found at each step. … Continue reading →

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