Monthly Archives: January 2015

Org Mode for Research Papers

Posted on 2015-01-07 by jcs

Vikas Rawal has an excellent introduction to using Org-mode for writing academic research papers. Rawal is mainly interested in statistical studies so his introduction emphasizes R but not in a way that excludes using his notes for other languages. Almost … Continue reading →

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Looking for a Fancier Mode Line?

Posted on 2015-01-06 by jcs

Here’s a Stack Exchange post that tells you how.

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SBCL 1.2.7 Is Out

Posted on 2015-01-06 by jcs

It’s the beginning of the month so there’s a new version of Steel Bank Common Lisp available at the usual place. The nicest improvement, I think, is that you can now restart frames in the debugger. As usual, there are … Continue reading →

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Welcome to Emacs Development

Posted on 2015-01-05 by jcs

Back when Emacs moved from Bazzar to git, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote a short introduction to Emacs development. I meant to write about it but lost track of the post. Happily, I’ve found it again and am posting about it to … Continue reading →

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Finite State Machine Parsers

Posted on 2015-01-04 by jcs

Back when I was programming network code in C, one of my favorite strategies was to to implement protocol processing as a finite state machine. I found the design was always easier to understand and modify, often by simply changing … Continue reading →

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Attack on the Scientific Method

Posted on 2015-01-03 by jcs

I just read a horrifying article in Nature. The article, Scientific method: Defend the integrity of physics, recounts an effort among some theoretical physicists to redefine the scientific method so that it no longer requires experimental verification or even that … Continue reading →

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Multiple Info Buffers

Posted on 2015-01-02 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork), who’s an occasional commenter here on Irreal, has an interesting post on his info workflow. He likes to have multiple info buffers open at the same time. That may seem a little odd but as Borkowski explains, … Continue reading →

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Using Emacs to Run a Course

Posted on 2015-01-01 by jcs

Via Sacha I found this really interesting post by John Kitchin, whose work Irreal has mentioned many times. In this post, Kitchin writes about how he used Emacs to run a graduate course in Chemical Engineering. Emacs was used to … Continue reading →

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