Category Archives: General

The Oldest Religious War

Posted on 2014-05-15 by jcs

Over at Slate, David Auerbach has an amusing article on the oldest religious war. That would be vi versus Emacs, of course. Auerbach has a dangerous marriage: he’s an Emacs user and his wife is a Vim user so he’s … Continue reading →

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Emacs For Developers

Posted on 2014-05-14 by jcs

Pierre Lecocq has a nice set of Emacs tips for developers. I’ve been meaning to write about it for a while now and Lecocq has recently updated it to include tips for Ruby, Python, C/C++/Objective C, Go, PHP, Java, and … Continue reading →

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Sacha Chats with Phil Hagelberg

Posted on 2014-05-13 by jcs

For her latest chat, Sacha Chua meets up with Phil Hagelberg. A year and a half ago, Hagelberg was featured on The Setup where he had some very interesting things to say about Emacs. I wrote about that here. Chua … Continue reading →

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At Last

Posted on 2014-05-12 by jcs

For time, I’ve been unsatisfied with the options for moving between windows. 【Ctrl+x o】is great when there are only two windows in the frame but becomes clumsy when there are three or more. For a long time I’ve been using … Continue reading →

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Encrypt Your Dropbox Data!

Posted on 2014-05-11 by jcs

I’ve told you many times (here, here, here, here, and here) that if you’re using Dropbox and you have any file in it that you wouldn’t like to see on the Internet, then you better be encrypting those files. Dropbox … Continue reading →

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Password Silliness Epitomized

Posted on 2014-05-10 by jcs

Remember how I told you of a sure tip off to an insecure site? Were you looking for an in-the-wild example? Well, here it is. The very apotheosis of a bad password policy. Forget, for a moment, the ridiculous explanation … Continue reading →

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Guessing File Applications in Dired

Posted on 2014-05-09 by jcs

One of the really great tools in Emacs is the Dired/Dired+ package. Recently, Mickey wrote a nice introduction to using Dired to run shell commands on files; I commented on that here. The other day, by happenstance, I found myself … Continue reading →

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Emacs Life

Posted on 2014-05-08 by jcs

I recently came across this sketchnote from Sacha Chua. I not sure how I missed emacslife.com but I don’t remember reading anything about it before. The site is a wonderful Emacs resource. It’s got links to tons of posts, articles, … Continue reading →

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Orgtbl Mode

Posted on 2014-05-07 by jcs

Like most Org users, I was aware of orgtbl-mode. It’s a minor mode that brings the power of the Org mode table editor to other modes. Because just about everything I do that might require a table gets done in … Continue reading →

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Some Good News for Org

Posted on 2014-05-06 by jcs

Bastien Guerry has resumed his role as the Org Mode maintainer. Okay, so I'm now back maintaining #orgmode for #emacs. Feels good. Get ready for some more cool stuff! — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) May 1, 2014 Guerry has done a … Continue reading →