Category Archives: General

Making occur a Bit Smarter

Posted on 2015-02-16 by jcs

Abo-abo is still blogging up a storm and giving us a daily dose of great Elisp. Someone looking to amass a first rate Emacs configuration could do worse than simply grab abo-abo’s daily posts and integrate them into their .emacs … Continue reading →

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The NYT Workflow

Posted on 2015-02-15 by jcs

Most of you have probably figured out that I’m a workflow geek. I love reading about people’s workflow and how they optimize their daily tasks. Popular Mechanics has a great article on The New York Times workflow. Many people in … Continue reading →

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Open Emacs Buffers

Posted on 2015-02-14 by jcs

I’m so ashamed: Oh, wow. I had over 200 buffers open in #Emacs (15 day uptime). Didn't even notice. Buffer navigation w/ IBuffer / ido-switch-buffer rocks. — Gergely Nagy (@algernoone) February 6, 2015 Even though my uptime is measured in … Continue reading →

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TeX Tips

Posted on 2015-02-14 by jcs

John Cook, who’ve I’ve mentioned a few times here, has a nice Twitter feed called TeX Tips. Every weekday, he posts a TeX/LaTex tip. Mostly they’re things you’ve probably seen—although some surprised me—but they’re of great value to folks like … Continue reading →

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 2015-02-13 by jcs

The Stasi is a good point. The Stasi is what happens when a state tries to achieve total watchfullness. — Nic Ferrier (@nicferrier) January 18, 2015

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Cleaning Up Garbage

Posted on 2015-02-12 by jcs

Regular readers know that one of my New Year’s resolutions is to learn more LaTeX. I’ve been having a lot of fun learning and using AUCTeX to write LaTeX documents. I created a tex directory to hold my .tex files … Continue reading →

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Clearing the Comint Buffer

Posted on 2015-02-11 by jcs

Bozhidar Batsov over at the excellent Emacs Redux has a very nice post on how to clear comint buffers. Comint is the machinery behind Eshell, and Shell mode. It is a general-purpose mode for communicating with interactive subprocesses and is … Continue reading →

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Word versus LaTeX Again

Posted on 2015-02-10 by jcs

Remember that silly paper purporting to compare the efficiency of Word versus LaTeX that I wrote about a couple of times? Daniel Lemire has a nice followup on the paper that incorporates some of the original authors’ responses to its … Continue reading →

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Narrowing with Multiple Cursors

Posted on 2015-02-10 by jcs

Grant Rettke points to a discussion in the comments from a Sacha Chua post. It turns out that when you’re in multiple cursors you can narrow the view to just those lines having a cursor. That’s something I didn’t know. … Continue reading →

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A Hydra Video

Posted on 2015-02-09 by jcs

If you took my advice and starting following (or emacs you’ll be familiar with abo-abo’s hydra package. It started out as a relatively simple macro, def-rep-command, that allows a command with a prefix to be repeated by merely pressing the … Continue reading →

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