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Peer Review

Posted on 2022-12-21 by jcs

Adam Mastroianni has a thoughtful and interesting article on peer review. The idea of having outside “experts” evaluate a prospective paper before it’s published in a journal seems to be obviously the right thing and something that has been the … Continue reading →

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Mbork on New Emacs 29 Features

Posted on 2022-12-20 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has a nice post about some of the things he likes about Emacs 29. Irreal has posted a couple of articles on Emacs 29 and what is coming but Borkowski’s post is different in that he just … Continue reading →

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Building An Exercise Table From a Journal

Posted on 2022-12-19 by jcs

Like many people, Simon Pugnet likes to keep a record of his exercising. His regime includes several types of exercise such as running, sit-ups, and pushups. Also like many of us, he maintains a daily journal so, of course, it … Continue reading →

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John Wiegley on Emacs 29

Posted on 2022-12-18 by jcs

Here’s another nice video from the EmacsConf 2022 conference. It’s John Wiegley on what’s coming in Emacs 29. As Wiegley says, it’s going to be a significant release with lots of new features. Here’s a list (cut from the video’s … Continue reading →

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Writing With Org Mode

Posted on 2022-12-17 by jcs

Chris Mariana has an interesting video on how to prevent losing files when writing in Org mode. It’s a useful post but not really enough to write about. The TL;DR is that it explains how to locate files that were … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Where Your Editor Runs…

Posted on 2022-12-16 by jcs

…and what it says about you. #Emacs pic.twitter.com/L63frIZxOA — William Méndez (@MrWMENDEZ) December 12, 2022 I’m sure we Emacers can all agree on the conclusion that “We are not the same.”

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Academic Writing in Emacs

Posted on 2022-12-15 by jcs

I recently came across this post by Chung-hong Chan on academic writing in Emacs that really annoyed me. It’s not anything that Chan said that put my back up but rather a common supposition that he mentioned that I and … Continue reading →

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RMS On What He Wants and Doesn’t Want in Emacs

Posted on 2022-12-14 by jcs

RMS presented a talk at the EmacsConf 2022 meeting on what he’d like to see and not see in Emacs. His first point was to dismiss the idea of replacing Elisp with something like JavaScript. Besides the technical infeasibility due … Continue reading →

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IDEs

Posted on 2022-12-13 by jcs

Renato Athaydes has an interesting post about his use of IDEs and how they are resource hogs and have a hard time operating on any but the most high powered machines. Most of you know by now that I’m not … Continue reading →

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Debugging Elisp

Posted on 2022-12-12 by jcs

Jon Eskin has a revealing post that shows how easy it is to use the Elisp debugger. The debugger, Edebug, is documented in the Emacs Lisp manual so of course it’s always available in your Emacs session. What I liked … Continue reading →

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