Category Archives: General

Launching Emacs Features

Posted on 2014-09-18 by jcs

Artur Malabarba has a nice riff on his toggling keymap that I wrote about here. This time he considers launching Emacs commands such as calc, ediff-buffers, man, shell, proced, and others. As Malabarba says, these are useful commands that you … Continue reading →

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Git Merge and Rebase Explained

Posted on 2014-09-17 by jcs

Git has become the de facto standard version control system. Many people find it confusing or even impossible to understand. In actuality, Git is based on some simple ideas that, once understood, make Git almost transparent. An example of this … Continue reading →

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One Side of the Argument Has Class

Posted on 2014-09-16 by jcs

That distant relative agrees to take back the sweater.

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Three Groups of Editors

Posted on 2014-09-16 by jcs

I came across this tweet People are categorized in 3 groups. "Almighty Emacsians", "Vim users", "Dumb-asses" :)) #emacs #vim — lxsameer (@lxsameer) August 29, 2014 that reminded me of my slightly less controversial post on the same subject. That post was … Continue reading →

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The Real Purpose of Operating Systems

Posted on 2014-09-15 by jcs

An amusing anecdote from Perry Metzger’s The Editor of a Lifetime talk. I don't care what OS I use, it's just a boot loader for #Emacs anyway. –Some U. Penn PhD student — jandrusk (@jandrusk) August 21, 2014

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And By the Way…

Posted on 2014-09-13 by jcs

…Happy Programmers’ Day.

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Things My Mom Taught Me

Posted on 2014-09-13 by jcs

Suppose a distant relative sends you a sweater. It’s a perfectly good sweater but not a style you like or would ever wear. Instead of rolling your eyes and sending a pro forma thank you note, you take to twitter … Continue reading →

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Tips on Being Productive with Emacs

Posted on 2014-09-09 by jcs

Back in 2009 Phil Sung taught a short course on being productive with Emacs. The slides from the course (1, 2) are still available and well worth a look. Often times, slides from a talk without the actual presentation aren’t … Continue reading →

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Truism of the Day

Posted on 2014-09-06 by jcs

Buggy software can easily induce superstition in its users. — Wilfred Hughes (@_wilfredh) September 5, 2014

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Progress Indicator for Org-Mode Code Blocks

Posted on 2014-09-06 by jcs

Via Grant Rettke, here is a nice snippet of code from John Kitchin that gives a visual indication of when an org-mode code block is executing. It’s just a defadvice around org-babel-execute-src-block so it’s easy to modify to suit your … Continue reading →

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