Category Archives: General

Emacs 26.1.92 Is Out

Posted on 2019-02-24 by jcs

Nicolas Petton has announced that the third pretest for Emacs 26.2, Emacs 26.1.92, is out. I compiled and installed it yesterday and have been using it as my default Emacs since then. I haven’t encountered any problems so if you … Continue reading →

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Some Words of Wisdom from Tim Bray

Posted on 2019-02-23 by jcs

Via Karl Voit I found a link to an interesting post from Tim Bray in which he discusses a variety of technical issues. I especially liked his take on Open Offices in which he says All the high-tech companies I’ve … Continue reading →

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Stephen Wolfram’s Personal Infrastructure

Posted on 2019-02-22 by jcs

Over at his blog, Stephen Wolfram writes about his personal infrastructure and workflow. Wolfram, of course, is the CEO of Wolfram Research, the company behind Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha. He describes himself as a very hands-on CEO but what’s surprising … Continue reading →

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What wc Means by Lines

Posted on 2019-02-21 by jcs

Every Unix/Linux user (and maybe Windows users too) is familiar with the wc command that counts characters, words, and lines. It an easy way to see how large a text file is and is often useful in scripts when you … Continue reading →

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Inserting the Current File Name

Posted on 2019-02-20 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has a very useful tip and piece of Elisp that many of you will find useful. The problem is how to how to insert the current file name at point, even when the point may be in … Continue reading →

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Elisp Cheat Sheet

Posted on 2019-02-19 by jcs

Musa Al-hassy has a very nice Elisp reference sheet. It doesn’t cover the Elisp run-time system so such as general Lisp constructs as used by Emacs. His table of contents gives a good idea of what’s covered: Functions Variables Block … Continue reading →

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Zamansky: GitHub Classroom 2

Posted on 2019-02-18 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has another video out on how he uses GitHub Classroom for teaching. Like the first, it’s not really about Emacs—although he does use Emacs in the process, of course—but it’s an interesting study on a tools-based approach to … Continue reading →

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Copying the Whole Buffer

Posted on 2019-02-17 by jcs

Tim Bray tweeted a nice bit of elisp to copy the current buffer to the kill ring: For mac/emacs people: <<<< (defun copy-whole-buffer () “Command A stupid” (interactive) (save-excursion (mark-whole-buffer) (copy-region-as-kill 1 (buffer-size)))) (global-set-key [(meta a)] ‘copy-whole-buffer) <<<< [Don’t know … Continue reading →

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Selling 911 Location Data

Posted on 2019-02-16 by jcs

Speaking of John Cook’s Data Privacy twitter account, as I did yesterday, here’s an interesting item: Selling 911 location data is illegal but US carriers reportedly did it anywayhttps://t.co/cAtPd5n5Mj — Data Privacy (@data_tip) February 14, 2019 It turns out that … Continue reading →

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New Data Privacy Tip Twitter Account from John D Cook

Posted on 2019-02-15 by jcs

I’ve long been a fan of John Cook’s TeX Tips and often learn something new from them. Cook has a number of such Twitter accounts covering various aspects of Mathematics and other technical areas. I was, therefore, happy to see … Continue reading →

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