Monthly Archives: February 2016

Bad Idea of the Year

We’re always seeing a lot of—sorry I can’t think of a more apropos term—stupid ideas for Emacs: let’s get rid of Elisp and make Javascript the extension language; let’s make it more like Notepad+; and so on. Here’s my nomination … Continue reading

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How to Securely SSH into Your Home Network

Karl Voit shares a nice trick with us. Suppose you want to SSH into your home server. You may be loath to open a port in your firewall and your ISP may assign you a temporary IP address that can … Continue reading

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Ogbe on Why He Uses Emacs

Last week I wrote about how Dennis Ogbe uses Org Mode to Blog. While I was on his site, I looked at some of his other posts and found one about why he uses Emacs. The post was written fairly … Continue reading

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The Piper Sends its Bill to the NSA

The NSA has been playing fast and lose with its duty to secure our communications by arranging for backdoors to be inserted into our cryptographic protocols. Everyone familiar with the situation is convinced that the NSA diddled with the Dual_EC_DRBG … Continue reading

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A Magit Tip

A nice tip from Wilfred Hughes for Magit users: Emacs tip of the day: you can use ! to explicitly run git commands inside magit. Handy for deleting large directories: ! rm -r somedir — Wilfred Hughes (@_wilfredh) January 20, … Continue reading

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More Backdoor Silliness

Benjamin Wittes over at Lawfare has posted a particularly silly idea for forcing vendors to install encryption backdoors: simply withdraw CDA §230 protection from any company that does not provide an unencrypted copy of any data they carry. The CDA … Continue reading

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Magit: Staging All Files Including Those Untracked

A nice tip from Xah Lee that I didn’t know about #emacs #magit tip. press C-u S to stage also untracked files. — ErgoEmacs (@ErgoEmacs) February 4, 2016

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Navigating to a File

If you’re like most people, you access your files by navigating down the directory structure to them. That’s not the only possibility though. You could also use one of the search engines built into your operating system. If you can’t … Continue reading

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Entering Accented Characters in Emacs

John D. Cook points out that it’s pretty easy to enter accented characters, ç, ü, é, etc., in Emacs by typing【Ctrl+x 8】followed by a punctuation mark and letter. For example, to get ç you type 【Ctrl+x 8 , c】. Cook’s … Continue reading

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Happy Birthday!

Today Ken Thompson is 72. Happy Birthday, Ken, and may you have many many more. UPDATE: Well actually it’s tomorrow so consider this early birthday greetings.

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