Category Archives: General

Switch to Editing a File with SUDO

Posted on 2016-01-14 by jcs

Here’s a very useful tip super useful when you open a file that needs sudo perms to edit/save: https://t.co/7Kis1RXa1o i have that bound to C-x C-v #emacs — Sriram Thaiyar (@s_thai) January 6, 2016 especially if you administer your own … Continue reading →

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Diffie-Hellman Explained with Paint

Posted on 2016-01-13 by jcs

A cornerstone of modern secure communications is the Diffie-Hellman key exchange. It solves the problem of two communicators who may not know each other and haven’t previously agreed on a key to negotiate a secret key in public. This may … Continue reading →

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Using Yasnippet with Mu4e

Posted on 2016-01-12 by jcs

Ben Maughan over at Pragmatic Emacs has a followup to his great post on mu4e and Org-mode. Since he recently moved from Thunderbird to mu4e, there are still a few gaps in his email workflow. One of those is the … Continue reading →

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Research Paper Workflow

Posted on 2016-01-11 by jcs

In a comment on my post Why I Use Emacs, which was mostly a hat tip to Don Knuth’s observation about enjoying your tools, Nick Higham points us to his post on the same quote. Higham is a mathematician whose … Continue reading →

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Nothing to Hide? Lose your Curtains.

Posted on 2016-01-10 by jcs

“If you don’t have anything to hide, why do you have curtains on your bedroom window?” — Kontra (@counternotions) December 27, 2015 It may seem facile but it makes a legitimate point: there’s a difference between secrecy and privacy. As … Continue reading →

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Org 8.3.3

Posted on 2016-01-09 by jcs

Bastien Guerry announces that he has released Org mode 8.3.3. I've released #emacs #orgmode 8.3.3 (bugfix release). Enjoy! — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) January 8, 2016 It’s a bug release so you should definitely upgrade. If you’re like me, you’ll get … Continue reading →

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Eazy Gnuplot Cookbook

Posted on 2016-01-09 by jcs

Via Jean-Philippe Paradis I found this gnuplot cookbook companion for eazy-gnuplot. I really like gnuplot and its ability to produce a large variety of excellent plots. Unfortunately, I don’t use it often enough to internalize its documentation and it’s always … Continue reading →

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Doing Away with Autosave Files

Posted on 2016-01-08 by jcs

I don’t like the loss of control but if you’d rather not worry about recover-file, Anna Pawlicka has you covered: Ha! I can set auto-save-visited-file-name to a non-nil value & have #emacs auto-save in the visited file. Bye you annoying … Continue reading →

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Calling Applescript from Emacs

Posted on 2016-01-07 by jcs

In this thread concerning adding certain OS X features to Emacs, I learned something I didn’t know. Daniel Colascione points out that Emacs supports invokng Applescript directly. To invoke Applescript with the string SCRIPT you make the call (do-applescript SCRIPT) … Continue reading →

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Karma

Posted on 2016-01-06 by jcs

It’s never nice to revel in schadenfreude, I suppose, but sometimes karma just feels so right.

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