Monthly Archives: June 2016

Relative Dates with Org Mode

Posted on 2016-06-30 by jcs

It’s easy to forget how flexible Org mode date entry can be. Here’s a helpful reminder from @goaoio. Reschedule an org subtree to the 42th Sunday in the future with 'C-c C-s 42sun'. #orgmode #orgmodeexample — ε (@goaoio) June 10, … Continue reading →

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Timers

Posted on 2016-06-29 by jcs

The latest video from Rainer König discusses countdown and relative timers. These aren’t the clock-in, clock-out timers—used to log time spent time spent on tasks—that you may be used to. They’re a separate facility that I didn’t know about before … Continue reading →

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Ivy Switch Buffer

Posted on 2016-06-28 by jcs

Since I decided to give swiper, counsel, and ivy a try, I’ve been paying more attention to abo-abo’s posts concerning them. Although I was aware that ivy took control of switch-buffer, I didn’t realize how powerful it is. Abo-abo has … Continue reading →

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Emacs for Screenwriters

Posted on 2016-06-27 by jcs

From time-to-time I see questions from people asking about using Emacs for (prose) writing. There are many resources for that, some of which Irreal has explored. Screenwriters have special problems because their manuscripts have to adhere to strict formatting rules. … Continue reading →

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Password DNA

Posted on 2016-06-26 by jcs

Unix-ninja has an excellent analysis of a large database of passwords and other information with over 18.2 million records. The file is unique because the site used home-grown crypto to encrypt the passwords and it was easily reversed. That means … Continue reading →

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Tutorial Update

Posted on 2016-06-25 by jcs

Rainer König has another week’s worth of tutorials up in his excellent series of videos on Org-mode. He’s trying to do one every workday so there’s a lot a really great material available. Mike Zamansky has added another video to … Continue reading →

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Blowing Up Academic Publishing

Posted on 2016-06-25 by jcs

Jason Shen has a very interesting post on how Sci-Hub is blowing up academic publishing. For those who don’t know, Sci-Hub is a site that offers free access to over 51,000,000 scientific journal articles. These papers are collected when a … Continue reading →

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Vi and Emacs Without the Religion

Posted on 2016-06-24 by jcs

Chris Patti over at Blind Not Dumb has gathered his courage and written a piece on vi versus Emacs. He approaches the subject, as the title suggests, without the usual religious fervor. His take, which is hard to argue with, … Continue reading →

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Literate Programming with Org Mode

Posted on 2016-06-23 by jcs

Frédérick Giasson, whom I’ve mentioned before, has a nice post on setting up Org mode for literate programming. Giasson’s post is mostly concerned with using literate programming to write Clojure but almost all of his setup is usable for other … Continue reading →

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Swiper

Posted on 2016-06-22 by jcs

For some reason I had it in my mind that swiper depended on Lispy, or Spacemacs, or some other Vim-derived Emacs mode so I never really looked at it. Then I read Mike Zamansky’s post on swiper and had my … Continue reading →

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