Monthly Archives: February 2015

Password Contains Invalid Characters (Again)

Posted on 2015-02-17 by jcs

Devin Chalmers has some words of wisdom for startups: "Your password contains invalid characters." No, your startup contains incompetent engineers. — Devin Chalmers (@qwzybug) December 15, 2014 Nick Selby already told them but apparently they didn’t listen.

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Searching Org Files and Buffers

Posted on 2015-02-17 by jcs

Remember Karl Voit from the Sacha Chua chat that I wrote about previously? Voit collects data on just about every aspect of his life and stores it in an Org file. If you haven’t watched the chat yet, be sure … Continue reading →

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Making occur a Bit Smarter

Posted on 2015-02-16 by jcs

Abo-abo is still blogging up a storm and giving us a daily dose of great Elisp. Someone looking to amass a first rate Emacs configuration could do worse than simply grab abo-abo’s daily posts and integrate them into their .emacs … Continue reading →

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The NYT Workflow

Posted on 2015-02-15 by jcs

Most of you have probably figured out that I’m a workflow geek. I love reading about people’s workflow and how they optimize their daily tasks. Popular Mechanics has a great article on The New York Times workflow. Many people in … Continue reading →

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Open Emacs Buffers

Posted on 2015-02-14 by jcs

I’m so ashamed: Oh, wow. I had over 200 buffers open in #Emacs (15 day uptime). Didn't even notice. Buffer navigation w/ IBuffer / ido-switch-buffer rocks. — Gergely Nagy (@algernoone) February 6, 2015 Even though my uptime is measured in … Continue reading →

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TeX Tips

Posted on 2015-02-14 by jcs

John Cook, who’ve I’ve mentioned a few times here, has a nice Twitter feed called TeX Tips. Every weekday, he posts a TeX/LaTex tip. Mostly they’re things you’ve probably seen—although some surprised me—but they’re of great value to folks like … Continue reading →

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 2015-02-13 by jcs

The Stasi is a good point. The Stasi is what happens when a state tries to achieve total watchfullness. — Nic Ferrier (@nicferrier) January 18, 2015

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Org-Page

Posted on 2015-02-13 by jcs

If you’re looking for a static-page blogging engine that you can post to from Emacs, you should take a look at Calum MacRae’s post on blogging with org-page. MacRae writes about his setup in detail so that you can set … Continue reading →

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Cleaning Up Garbage

Posted on 2015-02-12 by jcs

Regular readers know that one of my New Year’s resolutions is to learn more LaTeX. I’ve been having a lot of fun learning and using AUCTeX to write LaTeX documents. I created a tex directory to hold my .tex files … Continue reading →

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Clearing the Comint Buffer

Posted on 2015-02-11 by jcs

Bozhidar Batsov over at the excellent Emacs Redux has a very nice post on how to clear comint buffers. Comint is the machinery behind Eshell, and Shell mode. It is a general-purpose mode for communicating with interactive subprocesses and is … Continue reading →

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