Category Archives: General

If You’re Looking for Another Reason to Despise Journalists…

Posted on 2017-05-15 by jcs

Here you go.

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The Past Comes Due

Posted on 2017-05-15 by jcs

Irreal oldtimers know that I have often railed about the activities of the NSA and their domestic spying and about the ever more shrill demands by law enforcement that they be given a back door into our cell phones. As … Continue reading →

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The Benefits of Reading Code

Posted on 2017-05-14 by jcs

I’m a big advocate of reading code. A lot of what I know about programming, Unix, and Emacs, I learned from reading code. Chen Bin has a parallel if slightly different take on reading code. He says that mastering Emacs … Continue reading →

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Imenu for Dired

Posted on 2017-05-13 by jcs

Matus Goljer—Fuco1 of Smartparen fame—blogged a nice bit of Elisp that adds imenu functionality to dired. At first, that doesn’t seem to make sense since an imenu menu would simply have the same information as the dired listing itself. What … Continue reading →

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A Company-wide Emacs Configuration

Posted on 2017-05-12 by jcs

Daniel Gopar over at Emacs.el has another of his Emacs chats up. This time he talks to Charles Lowell from Frontside Software. What’s interesting about Frontside is that they have a company-wide, shared Emacs configuration. All the developers use the … Continue reading →

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Running Your Life from Your Smart Phone

Posted on 2017-05-11 by jcs

Back in February, I wrote that more and more functions are being moved into our smart phones. That includes things like ATM cards, credit cards, driver licenses, and even unlocking doors. This is something I welcome—although Noonian Atall pushes back … Continue reading →

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Jumping Directly to Org Headers

Posted on 2017-05-10 by jcs

Last week I wrote about finding out about counsel-imenu from Arjen Wiersma’s Emacs configuration. Today, I discovered something new about it. Filipe Silva was looking for a way to jump to an Org mode heading using fuzzy completion. There were … Continue reading →

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How to Make Swiper Choose the Second or Subsequent Match on a Line

Posted on 2017-05-09 by jcs

Chanyoung is a Swiper user and asks a question I’ve sometimes wondered about: when using swiper, how do you choose the second or subsequent match on a line? If you follow the above link, you will see that abo-abo himself … Continue reading →

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Comey and Feinstein At It Again

Posted on 2017-05-08 by jcs

James Comey and Dianne Feinstein are at it again pressing for legislation to compel device manufacturers to enable law enforcement to bypass device encryption. In a sense, nothing is new. Comey is trotting out the same arguments—many or most of … Continue reading →

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Going to the Beginning and End of Special Buffers

Posted on 2017-05-07 by jcs

Way back in 2013 Magnar Sveen published a nice bit of Elisp for moving to the beginning and end of a dired buffer. By beginning and end, he meant the logical beginning and end: the first and last line of … Continue reading →

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