Category Archives: General

Calling eww from Dired

Posted on 2016-09-10 by jcs

If you have files that you read in eww, here’s a suggestion that might make your workflow a bit easier: (define-key dired-mode-map "e" (lambda () (interactive) (eww-open-file (dired-get-file-for-visit)))) e opens from #dired with #eww in #emacs — ε (@goaoio) July … Continue reading →

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Learn Elisp with Xah

Posted on 2016-09-09 by jcs

Xah Lee is running a one month long Elisp tutorial. Everyday he points you to one of his Elisp pages and then gives a quiz or assignment to test your knowledge of the material. The course has been going on … Continue reading →

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Emacs Configurations for LaTeX

Posted on 2016-09-08 by jcs

There’s been a lot of tweets and posts on Reddit lately asking about Emacs configurations to support writing \(\TeX\) and \(\LaTeX\). Here’s an example from anasrchid. He asks the typical question: how should I configure Emacs and what packages should … Continue reading →

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SBCL 1.3.9 Released

Posted on 2016-09-07 by jcs

Steel Bank Common Lisp’s newest version, 1.3.9, is ready for download at the usual place. This month’s release is a small one that fixes a bug, optimizes some operations with complex numbers, and adds an enhancement that helps with garbage … Continue reading →

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Rewriting Git History with Rebase in Magit

Posted on 2016-09-05 by jcs

Charl Botha has a useful video on rewriting Git history with Magit. Botha gives three examples: Changing the commit message on any old commit Squashing two or more commits into one Splitting a commit into two or more separate commits … Continue reading →

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Cool Fact of the Day

Posted on 2016-09-04 by jcs

Matthew Anderson is right: I didn’t know I knew this but I do Things native English speakers know, but don't know we know: pic.twitter.com/Ex0Ui9oBSL — Matthew Anderson (@MattAndersonBBC) September 3, 2016 Hat tip to Karl Voit.

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Zamansky on Keyboard Macros

Posted on 2016-09-03 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has another video up in his Using Emacs Series. This time it’s about keyboard macros. I’m always inclined to think that everyone knows all about them but I keep reading tweets about people discovering their power and being … Continue reading →

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Computerphile: Unrolling Loops

Posted on 2016-09-02 by jcs

Professor Brailsford of Computerphile has an interesting short video on unrolling loops. He motivates the discussion by relating a story about the introduction of the Laserwriter. John Warnock, from Adobe, and Steve Jobs planned to show off the Laserwriter’s capabilities … Continue reading →

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Random Medical News

Posted on 2016-09-01 by jcs

From John Cook we have this bit of humor that also has the feel of truth: pic.twitter.com/ElqdpI9ywg — John D. Cook (@JohnDCook) August 5, 2016 I’m old enough that I can remember at least 3 cycles of Coffee is good … Continue reading →

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Escaping Org Examples in Org

Posted on 2016-08-31 by jcs

From Karl Voit we have this really useful piece of advice: TIL: you can use "org" blocks to write #orgmode examples and org-edit-special resulting in correct escaping: https://t.co/oeIR1sccfZ — Karl Voit (@n0v0id) August 30, 2016 If you follow the link … Continue reading →

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