Category Archives: General

Another Convert

Posted on 2015-01-21 by jcs

Picking them off one by one…

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Refactoring CamelCase

Posted on 2015-01-21 by jcs

If, like me, you consider CamelCase symbol names to be the mark of the beast, Arne Babenhauserheide has you covered. He recently found himself having to convert names like CamelCase to camel_case. He found some code on the Emacs Wiki, … Continue reading →

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Listing File Sizes in dired

Posted on 2015-01-20 by jcs

Like many Emacs users, I do almost all my file manipulation (rm, mv, cp, etc.) in dired. It’s just a lot easier to have a listing of the directory in front of you and mark the files you want to … Continue reading →

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Empty Your Cup

Posted on 2015-01-19 by jcs

Some sage advice from Sacha: It occurred to me that "Empty your cup" is good advice to give to people starting to learn Emacs. pic.twitter.com/j1OwCyBjC3 — Sacha Chua (@sachac) January 13, 2015

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Sleepwalking into Tyranny

Posted on 2015-01-18 by jcs

Nic Ferrier has a few words of his own on government snooping. This time from a British point of view. We appear to be sleep walking into a world where MI5 can constantly watch us. If you don't think this … Continue reading →

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Surprise!

Posted on 2015-01-18 by jcs

An internal CIA board has found that its officers had done nothing wrong by breaking into the computers of senate staffers who were investigating claims of CIA torture. If you’re surprised by this you haven’t been paying attention. The government … Continue reading →

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Some Tips from mbork

Posted on 2015-01-16 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has a short list of Emacs configuration tips that you may find useful. All of these are documented, of course, but it can be notoriously hard to dig out information of this type. For example, one tip … Continue reading →

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Org Protocol

Posted on 2015-01-15 by jcs

Abo-abo over at (or emacs has been blogging up a storm. So much so that it’s hard to keep up. In a couple of recent posts, he describes how he interfaces his browser to Org mode. The idea is that … Continue reading →

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A Convert Reports on His Progress

Posted on 2015-01-14 by jcs

A year ago, Bailey Ling was a Vim user. Like many of us, he switched to Emacs and now he’s giving a progress report. Many of Ling’s long-held work flows have become victim to Emacs. For example, he used to … Continue reading →

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The Word versus LaTeX Paper Keeps on Giving

Posted on 2015-01-13 by jcs

The infamous Word versus LaTex paper that I wrote about previously has taken on a new life as a gag. Every instance of “Word” in the paper was replaced with “Emacs” and every instance of “LaTex” was replaced with “Vim.” … Continue reading →

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