Monthly Archives: November 2011

Happy Anniversary To Mastering Emacs

Posted on 2011-11-11 by jcs

Happy Anniversary to Mickey Petersen and Mastering Emacs. Mickey has been posting really great material for a year now and we should all hope he continues. As I’ve said before, Mickey always has something interesting to say and I invariably … Continue reading →

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Emacs Key Chord Mode

Posted on 2011-11-10 by jcs

Magnar Sveen has a new episode of Emacs Rocks up. This time he talks about key-chord.el, a package that lets you press two keys simultaneously (or a single key twice in quick succession) to run a command. For example, I … Continue reading →

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Three Trees

Posted on 2011-11-09 by jcs

Scott Chacon, author of Pro Git, gave an interesting talk at Strange Loop entitled A Tale of Three Trees. The idea is to understand how Git works by understanding how it manipulates the three trees: head, index, and working directory. … Continue reading →

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Unix V6 Lives!

Posted on 2011-11-08 by jcs

If you’re a Unix nerd like me, you probably like reading through the Unix sources. These days, that’s remarkably easy to do. We have Linux, BSD, Open Solaris, and even some of the ancient Unix sources to peruse. It wasn’t … Continue reading →

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VimGolf In Emacs 19 And A New Trick

Posted on 2011-11-07 by jcs

Tim Visher has a new version of VimGolf in Emacs up. There are a couple of interesting things in this episode. First, Visher is working on a VimGolf minor mode that loads the challenge into Emacs and provides special functionality … Continue reading →

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A New Trick For Marking Up Key Sequences in Emacs

Posted on 2011-11-06 by jcs

Frozenlock left a comment to an old post of mine about Marking Up Key Sequences For HTML. He said he liked the way Xah Lee and I mark up Emacs keys sequences but that he didn’t like having to write … Continue reading →

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Using The Emacs save-restriction Special Form

Posted on 2011-11-05 by jcs

Emacs has the ability to “narrow” a buffer to a region thereby making the parts of the buffer outside the region invisible. The invisible part of the buffer is completely inaccessible: you can’t move into it, you can’t change it, … Continue reading →

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More Amazon Disruption

Posted on 2011-11-04 by jcs

Back in September while everyone was waiting for Amazon to announce the Kindle Fire, Sebastian Anthony over at ExtremeTech speculated that Amazon would also roll out a digital library that would let Kindle/Amazon Prime users check out books for free. … Continue reading →

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Emacs Rocks

Posted on 2011-11-03 by jcs

Tim Visher has started a growth industry with his VimGolf in Emacs videos. First, some of us starting writing about the videos, then people started issuing their own challenges, and now he has a direct competitor with Emacs Rocks. I … Continue reading →

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The Emacs sort-columns Command

Posted on 2011-11-02 by jcs

Xah Lee has caught the VimGolf with Emacs bug and proposed an interesting challenge. The final part of the solution involved sorting the following list by the number of square kilometers. California 423,970 km² Taiwan 36,008 km² Japan 377,944 km² … Continue reading →

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