Monthly Archives: February 2015

Word versus LaTeX Again

Posted on 2015-02-10 by jcs

Remember that silly paper purporting to compare the efficiency of Word versus LaTeX that I wrote about a couple of times? Daniel Lemire has a nice followup on the paper that incorporates some of the original authors’ responses to its … Continue reading →

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Narrowing with Multiple Cursors

Posted on 2015-02-10 by jcs

Grant Rettke points to a discussion in the comments from a Sacha Chua post. It turns out that when you’re in multiple cursors you can narrow the view to just those lines having a cursor. That’s something I didn’t know. … Continue reading →

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A Hydra Video

Posted on 2015-02-09 by jcs

If you took my advice and starting following (or emacs you’ll be familiar with abo-abo’s hydra package. It started out as a relatively simple macro, def-rep-command, that allows a command with a prefix to be repeated by merely pressing the … Continue reading →

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The Guardian on Cursive

Posted on 2015-02-08 by jcs

Since we’re talking about cursive, let’s take a look at what the Guardian has to say. They report that in Britain and the United States handwriting of all types—printing as well as cursive—is rapidly disappearing. Of course, we all write … Continue reading →

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Google It

Posted on 2015-02-07 by jcs

Via Magnar, here are some tips on fine tuning a Google search: How to Google It. pic.twitter.com/KL49Cp5mOH — Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) January 17, 2015

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Vox on Cursive

Posted on 2015-02-07 by jcs

I haven’t written about cursive handwriting in a while so here’s some red meat for those, like me, who hope to see its elimination from the curriculum. Vox.com posted an article with the provocative title Cursive handwriting is useless, but … Continue reading →

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Help GNUPG

Posted on 2015-02-06 by jcs

.@facebook and @stripe each vow to donate $50k a year to @gnupg https://t.co/YTwn9zC68X — Julia Angwin (@JuliaAngwin) February 6, 2015 Here’s why. If you can chip in a few dollars to keep this absolutely vital project going, please do. Kock’s … Continue reading →

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Kitchin on Using helm to Ease Navigation

Posted on 2015-02-06 by jcs

John Kitchin, who in addition to being a professor with all the work that that entails, has been busy showing us how to leverage Emacs to ease our work flows. If you’re a helm user, Kitchin has some nice Elisp … Continue reading →

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The Answer to Blogging Friction

Posted on 2015-02-05 by jcs

Although regular readers are familiar with it, here is a quick review of the history of my blogging work flow. In my old blog on Blogger, I was already using Org-mode but I exported the Org to HTML and pasted … Continue reading →

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Uncommon Bigrams

Posted on 2015-02-04 by jcs

Recently, Sacha Chua wrote about how she leveraged abo-abo’s def-repeat-command to easily call windmove and ace-window. She bound the function to the prefix key-chord of yy. That seemed an odd choice to me but I just shrugged and moved on. … Continue reading →

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