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A Bit More On Guile Emacs

A week ago, I wrote about the recent restoration of the Guile Emacs project. Despite my enthusiasm for the original project, I just couldn’t get excited about its resurrection. You can take a look at that post for my reasons … Continue reading

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Building Emacs Configurations

Jack Baty has a post that considers the best way of building an Emacs configuration. On the one hand, something like Doom Emacs provides a complete, no-brainer configuration that requires little effort on the part of the user. On the … Continue reading

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What’s New In Emacs

There are lots of different types of Emacs users, of course, but two distinct classes are those, like me, who stay pretty much up-to-date and those who are stilling running old versions of Emacs and are not familiar with what … Continue reading

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Are You A Cyborg?

Cyborgs. It’s a familiar trope to those of us who enjoy science fiction. I’ve always thought that I’m a bit too old to experience being a cyborg in any non-trivial way but then I read this article by Alberto Navarro . … Continue reading

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Flowmeter

Every programmer—at least every programmer who actually programs—is familiar with the concept of flow. It’s a well established concept with lots of research to back it up even if some don’t believe in it. The trouble is, there are lots … Continue reading

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Analog Vs. Digital Again

Every time I think I’m done with the subject of analog versus digital notes, JTR makes another interesting post on the subject. His latest offering says he’s capitulated to the inevitable and is writing his notes digitally. Still, he says, … Continue reading

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Law Enforcement Discovers Irony

For years, anyone with a reasonable knowledge of the situation and no ax to grind has been preaching the gospel that today’s on-line society needs strong, end-to-end encryption for the safe conduct of our electronic activities. At the same time, … Continue reading

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Showing Diff On Some Buffers

Protesilaos Stavrou has a post with a really nice tip. Almost all Emacsers know about save-some-buffers if only from fat fingering its default binding of Ctrl+x s instead of save buffer bound to Ctrl+x Ctrl+s. As Prot says, that’s handy … Continue reading

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Guile Emacs: What’s Old Is New Again

I remember that a long time ago I was excited about the Guile Emacs project. It’s aim was to replace Elisp with Guile Scheme while maintaining comparability by making Scheme grok Elisp. To be honest, I can no longer recall … Continue reading

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Passwords And Their Problems

In response to my recent post on How Passwords Are Stolen, Smitty remarked that the bar for brute forcing your credentials is lowering. I agreed and remarked that passwords are well past their sell-by date. Unfortunately, although some reasonable alternatives … Continue reading

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