Monthly Archives: August 2016

Emacs: The Universal OS

Posted on 2016-08-13 by jcs

I came across this tweet Slowly incorporating #emacs' EShell to my workflow. At least I can still practice shell-fu even if I'm not on Linux. #dev #gamedev — Accidental Rebel (@accidentalrebel) August 11, 2016 the other day and it reminded … Continue reading →

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The W3C and DRM

Posted on 2016-08-12 by jcs

pic.twitter.com/WKWGdZZo8m — Defective by Design (@endDRM) August 10, 2016

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Inserting Today’s Date

Posted on 2016-08-11 by jcs

Ben Maughan over at Pragmatic Emacs posted a nice little bit of Elisp to insert today’s date. That reminded me that the first Elisp, other than routine configuration lines, that I wrote was a function to insert the date. Mine … Continue reading →

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A C/C++ Development Environment

Posted on 2016-08-10 by jcs

It seems odd to me that people keep asking for C/C++ environments for Emacs. Odd because you’d think this would have settled years ago. I’m guessing that this is mostly about having an IDE environment, like Eclipse, for C++. A … Continue reading →

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Migrate Data From Evernote to Org

Posted on 2016-08-09 by jcs

Although I generally avoid committing data to proprietary applications, I find Evernote useful for capturing Web articles that I might want to revisit. If it’s really important, it goes into my journal, perhaps with a link to the original site … Continue reading →

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Shoutout

Posted on 2016-08-08 by jcs

This is a shoutout to Artur Malabarba for his excellent elisp-bug-hunter that I wrote about last year. This morning, I upgraded my packages, one of which was Org, and afterwards Emacs would not load. I was getting an error about … Continue reading →

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Emacs and Vi

Posted on 2016-08-07 by jcs

Al Williams over at Hackaday has a post in which he discusses the Emacs/Vi holy war and looks at the merits of each editor. It’s interesting in the way that these posts always are but I think he misses the … Continue reading →

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New Video in OrgMode Tutorial Series

Posted on 2016-08-06 by jcs

Rainer König has posted his latest video in the OrgMode Tutorial series. This time it’s about exporting from Org mode. König begins by remarking that he rarely uses this facility, which surprised me. It surprised me because I am always … Continue reading →

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Zamansky on Elpy and YASnippet

Posted on 2016-08-05 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has posted his latest Using Emacs video. This time the subject is Elpy and YASnippet. In his last video, Zamansky said he doesn’t use Elpy because it’s overkill for his purposes and also because he thought it was … Continue reading →

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Keeping Emacs and Packages in Sync Across a Team

Posted on 2016-08-04 by jcs

Lakeyosemit asks an interesting question on the Emacs reddit. He says he and his team collaborate using literate programming and reproducible research with Emacs and Org mode. Recently, they’ve encountered a problem where certain experiments weren’t reproducible by all team … Continue reading →

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