Category Archives: General

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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The Guardian on Cursive

Posted on 2015-02-08 by jcs

Since we’re talking about cursive, let’s take a look at what the Guardian has to say. They report that in Britain and the United States handwriting of all types—printing as well as cursive—is rapidly disappearing. Of course, we all write … Continue reading →

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