Category Archives: General

Apple Responds

Posted on 2016-02-28 by jcs

Irreal readers are certainly aware of the latest drama playing out between the FBI and Apple. The FBI applied, ex parte, to a federal magistrate for an order compelling Apple to assist the FBI in breaking into an iPhone 5C … Continue reading →

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Moving Files Asynchronously in Dired

Posted on 2016-02-27 by jcs

Sometimes you want to copy a set of files from Dired in Emacs. If you have one or two files you can simply mark and copy them but if there are many files it can take some time for the … Continue reading →

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Science vs. Everything Else

Posted on 2016-02-26 by jcs

Via Karl Voit we have sad commentary on the human condition.

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Mickey on use-package

Posted on 2016-02-26 by jcs

Mickey has a new post over at Mastering Emacs on John Wiegley’s excellent use-package package. For those who don’t know, use-package is a macro that organizes and simplifies package loading and configuration. It can also delay the loading of a … Continue reading →

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Lisp in Production

Posted on 2016-02-25 by jcs

If you’re a Lisper, you’ve probably heard many times that it’s not practical to use Lisp in production. Despite the many counter examples (Viaweb, ITA, …) this myth—like the one about Lisp being slow—refuses to die. Vsevolod Dyomkin and Kevin … Continue reading →

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Some Ansi-Term Improvement

Posted on 2016-02-24 by jcs

Brian Zwahr uses ansi-term in Emacs for his shell work but found that there were a few things about it that he didn’t like. Being Emacs, those things were pretty easy to fix and he posted about his fixes. He … Continue reading →

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Org 8.3.4

Posted on 2016-02-23 by jcs

#emacs #orgmode 8.3.4 is out, a bugfix release. Enjoy! https://t.co/orlZPvOEGV — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) February 22, 2016

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Ledger

Posted on 2016-02-23 by jcs

Austin Walker recently gave a talk at the Boston Emacs Meetup on using John Wiegley’s ledger program. Happily, there’s a video of the talk so we can all enjoy it. Ledger is a command line program but, of course, there’s … Continue reading →

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Privacy versus Law Enforcement

Posted on 2016-02-22 by jcs

#AppleVsFBI pic.twitter.com/5aSx2shARm — Jayson E. Street (@jaysonstreet) February 21, 2016

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Running Emacs as a Daemon

Posted on 2016-02-22 by jcs

For some workflows, especially those centered around the terminal, it makes sense to run Emacs as a server so that you can use emacsclient to quickly pop up an Emacs frame. I mostly just have a GUI instance of Emacs … Continue reading →

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