Category Archives: General

Mu4e at Irreal

Posted on 2017-04-03 by jcs

Ever since I read Ben Maughan’s post on mastering your inbox with mu4e and Org mode back in 2015, I’ve been insanely jealous of his method and of his use of mu4e for dealing with emails directly in Emacs. Right … Continue reading →

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Updating save-receipt-link

Posted on 2017-04-02 by jcs

This is tax season here in the United States. My Org-based tax record keeping enabled me to send everything to my accountant as soon as I had all the proper forms from employers, banks, and other sources of income to … Continue reading →

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AI Loosely Defined

Posted on 2017-04-01 by jcs

Since this is April 1st and no post will be taken seriously anyway, I offer this piece of wisdom, which Jean-Philippe Paradis retweeted: by today's definition, y=mx+b is an artificial intelligence bot that can tell you where a line is … Continue reading →

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The Emacs rx Macro

Posted on 2017-03-31 by jcs

I’ve long been aware of the rx macro in Emacs as a way of lispifying regular expressions but it always seemed too complicated to learn. Now Francis Murillo (I think) has published an excellent post on using the rx macro. … Continue reading →

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The Richness of ibuffer

Posted on 2017-03-30 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has a handy reminder about the richness of ibuffer. It really is very flexible and it’s worth reading the help as mbork suggests.

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Abo-abo on Implementing a C++ IDE on Emacs

Posted on 2017-03-29 by jcs

A couple of days ago, I wrote about Baris Yuksel’s videos on making an Emacs C++ IDE. Today, I saw a post by abo-abo on how he improved his Emacs C++ environment. Abo-abo says he was motivated to improve his … Continue reading →

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Comments on the Thompson Hack

Posted on 2017-03-28 by jcs

I’ve written several times (1, 2, 3) about Ken Thompson’s beautiful if terrifying hack that invisibly inserted a back door into all programs generated with the C compiler. “Invisibly” here means that there’s nothing in the C compiler’s source code … Continue reading →

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Emacser Defined

Posted on 2017-03-26 by jcs

Emacser (noun): a person who spends 45 minutes and 20 lines of code to save one keypress. — Wilfred Hughes (@_wilfredh) March 25, 2017 There’s a lot of truth in that, of course, but we’re planning on saving that 1 … Continue reading →

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Ediff Files from Dired

Posted on 2017-03-25 by jcs

The prolific abo-abo has a nice bit of Elisp that you will find useful if you like to use dired for your file operations and find yourself diffing a lot of files. His snippet allows you to mark two file … Continue reading →

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Flash, FedEx? Really?

Posted on 2017-03-24 by jcs

I like FedEx and I use them all the time to send packages and even important papers that need to be there the next day. I’ve always assumed that like UPS they are a technically sophisticated operation. That illusion was … Continue reading →

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