Monthly Archives: September 2018

Displaying Alerts from Eshell

Posted on 2018-09-10 by jcs

Jürgen Hötzel has a nice post on solving a problem many of us have. Suppose you start a long running process—a make, say—from Eshell and then go on to do other work. It’s easy to lose track of the process … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday DMR

Posted on 2018-09-09 by jcs

Today is Dennis Ritchie’s birthday. Take a moment to remember the man who, along with Ken Thompson, invented Unix and changed our world. Those of us in computer related fields would be working in a completely different environment were it … Continue reading →

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Firefox’s Plans for Fighting Tracking

Posted on 2018-09-08 by jcs

The Firefox developers at Mozilla are no longer going to tolerate the miscreants in the Adtech business. On their blog, they lay out their plans for dealing with tracking. Among other things, they will be stripping cookies from tracking sites … Continue reading →

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Emacs → VSCode → Emacs

Posted on 2018-09-07 by jcs

Bryan Willson Berry over at Hotair.tech recently moved into JavaScript development. Although he is a longtime Emacs user, he didn’t like the JavaScript support in Emacs so he moved to VSCode. VSCode is the new editor hotness, of course, so … Continue reading →

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EmacsCast #4

Posted on 2018-09-06 by jcs

Rakhim Davletkaliyev is back with another Emacs Podcast. He’s got a new website and—in accordance with the cunning plan devised by the Emacs mandarins—has been seduced into using Hugo and Emacs to post to it. The plan was so successful … Continue reading →

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A Swiper Tip

Posted on 2018-09-05 by jcs

In case you’re a Swiper user and missed it in yesterday’s Languages for Text Processing Post, akirakom’s Emacs subreddit post contained a tip for using Swiper. In the middle of a Swiper search you can type Meta+q to start a … Continue reading →

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Languages for Text Processing

Posted on 2018-09-04 by jcs

The other day, Xah Lee, as he is wont to do, provoked a spirited debate on Mastodon about the usefulness of Emacs Lisp for text processing. Lee wrote that although he has used Elisp for text processing for many years, … Continue reading →

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Fixing an Emacs Lisp Annoyance

Posted on 2018-09-03 by jcs

Over at emacs ninja, Vasilij Schneidermann talks about his number one annoyance with Emacs Lisp. Schneidermann says there are indeed problems with Elisp but he differs from most folks on what they are. He doesn’t care that it’s not fast … Continue reading →

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Literate Programming for Programming Notes

Posted on 2018-09-02 by jcs

Over at Arcadian Visions there’s a nice post on using literate programming techniques for making programming notes. The specific problem the post addresses is how to effectively take notes on some piece of programming arcana that you will want to … Continue reading →

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Whitespace and Regexes in Emacs

Posted on 2018-09-01 by jcs

I’ve always found that specifying whitespace in an Emacs regex was harder than it should be. If I want anything more than a simple space (or spaces) I always have a difficult time remembering the incantation. Over time, I’ve settled … Continue reading →

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