Category Archives: General

LPR Cameras Exposed Online

Posted on 2015-11-08 by jcs

The government that claims it can safely manage backdoor keys to our communications has once again demonstrated its fecklessness at securing sensitive data. Sans Newsbites is reporting that several license plate reader cameras were exposed online. In some cases, the … Continue reading →

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What Metadata Really Is

Posted on 2015-11-07 by jcs

Edward Snowden cuts through the baloney and reminds us of the real meaning of Metadata. "Metadata" means records about your private activities and associations. It's an activity dossier. The novelty is in the lack of warrants. — Edward Snowden (@Snowden) … Continue reading →

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Textified Web Pages in Emacs

Posted on 2015-11-06 by jcs

If you have lynx installed, here’s a handy tip from Mike Sample: #Emacs #Orgmode is awesome for research notes. Pull text-ified webpages into the buffer with #nomouse C-u M-! lynx –dump <URL-to-good-page> — Mike Sample (@mikesample) September 28, 2015

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New Maintainer

Posted on 2015-11-05 by jcs

Emacs has a new maintainer. Thanks to John Wiegley for taking on a hard, and often thankless, job. Wiegley has been very active in Emacs development—including authoring the wonderful use-package and eshell packages—and has lots of good ideas. If you’re … Continue reading →

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Note Taking While Learning a Language

Posted on 2015-11-04 by jcs

Nickolas Lanasa has a tip that should be obvious but may not be: Org-mode Inline code snippets that you can evaluate in #emacs are so helpful when learning a new programming language. #notetaking — Nickolas Lanasa (@nicklanasa) October 21, 2015 … Continue reading →

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Text Editors Are Like Wine

Posted on 2015-11-03 by jcs

The other day I came across an old post by Vivek Haldar on what we want in an editor. I may have written about it before but it’s worth revisiting. He notes that for many people what they want includes … Continue reading →

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Advanced Magit Video

Posted on 2015-11-02 by jcs

Howard Abrams has been releasing a lot of really great videos lately. His latest is a remake of a talk he gave to the Portland Emacs Hackers Group on Magit Introduction and Demonstration. Although he spends a little bit of … Continue reading →

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Emacs Mini Manual (Basics)

Posted on 2015-10-31 by jcs

Tu Do (tuhdo) has an excellent series of primers on Emacs. The first one is the Emacs Mini Manual (PART 1) – THE BASICS. It’s about 40 pages when printed as a PDF so it’s much more than an extended … Continue reading →

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Combining Incremental Search and Query-Replace

Posted on 2015-10-30 by jcs

Here’s a very nice tip from Johan Lindstrom: #emacs tip: C-s (incremental-search), now C-w (pick up words), and then the real tip: M-% to query-replace the searched-for text. *BOOM* — Johan Lindstrom (@jplindstrom) October 1, 2015

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DWIM in the Minibuffer

Posted on 2015-10-29 by jcs

Artur Malabarba has an excellent Emacs tip on how to get the minibuffer to make an informed guess as to what who want to enter at the prompt. This is a really nice tip and something I didn’t know. Be … Continue reading →

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