Category Archives: General

More on Multics Emacs

Posted on 2019-05-27 by jcs

Back in January, I wrote about Bernard Greenberg’s history of Emacs on the Multics system. I just found a set of contemporaneous notes on the first 110 days of Multics Emacs’ development. What’s amazing is how quickly they were able … Continue reading →

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The Past Comes Due for Equifax

Posted on 2019-05-26 by jcs

For those who have forgotten, 2 years ago Equifax—one of the top three credit reporting services in the world—suffered a catastrophic breach that resulted in the loss of data on 150 million people. The details are drearily familiar: Equifax had … Continue reading →

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Toggling iTerm2 Full Screen Mode

Posted on 2019-05-25 by jcs

This post is Apple Mac specific so Linux and Windows users can have the day off. I came across this tweet that has a very useful piece of parenthetical information: TIL about `winner-mode` for #emacs. Excellent tool (especially after having … Continue reading →

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Implementing the Eisenhower Matrix in Org-mode

Posted on 2019-05-24 by jcs

The Eisenhower Matrix—so named because it was used by Dwight Eisenhower—is a technique of visualizing and prioritizing decisions by marking them urgent/non-urgent and important/non-important. If you mark each task with the two attributes, it will fall into one of four … Continue reading →

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A Long Form Writing Environment

Posted on 2019-05-23 by jcs

Ryan Rix, who has the most well thought out and complete Emacs environment that I’ve seen has a post on the setup he uses for long form writing. By “long form” he means more than a paragraph or two on … Continue reading →

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Working Remotely

Posted on 2019-05-22 by jcs

I’ve long been enamored of the idea of working from anywhere. These days, that seems boringly quotidian but just a few years ago it was a radical idea fiercely resisted by the type of manager who believed that unless you … Continue reading →

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Some Useful Bash Variables

Posted on 2019-05-21 by jcs

In a computing world that often seems increasingly captured by the “point and click” mindset, it’s useful, now and then, to be reminded of the power and value of the command line. I’m not a “I do everything in the … Continue reading →

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Magit in Spacemacs

Posted on 2019-05-20 by jcs

Jack of Some is back with another video in his Absolute Minimum Series. This time, he takes a look at using Magit from within Spacemacs. Like his last video on Refactoring in Spacemacs, this one is applicable for all Emacs … Continue reading →

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Collaboration in ed(1)

Posted on 2019-05-19 by jcs

As some of you know, I satisfy my retro-computing itch by occasionally firing up ed for a simple editing task. In truth, I do it mainly to stay current with ed against the day that I need it. That and … Continue reading →

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A Nice AWK One-liner

Posted on 2019-05-18 by jcs

How would you solve this problem? Given a file of text lines, remove duplicate lines keeping the original order. The first thing that springs to mind is using sort | uniq or perhaps sort -u but these solutions fail to … Continue reading →

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