Monthly Archives: October 2018

Formatting Tables

Posted on 2018-10-11 by jcs

If you’re like me, you automatically think of the Org mode table editor (or Orgtbl minor mode) when you think of tables in Emacs. It’s hard to beat that functionality and Orgtbl mode makes it available everywhere in Emacs, even … Continue reading →

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Emacs for iA Writer Users

Posted on 2018-10-10 by jcs

I’ve long since moved all my writing—at least all my new writing—to Org mode. It does everything I need and let’s me stay in Emacs. Different folks favor different strokes, of course, so it’s always interesting to see what they … Continue reading →

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Xmonad

Posted on 2018-10-09 by jcs

One of the reasons I enjoy working as much as possible within Emacs is that I have a consistent mouseless interface to all my applications. That means that I develop muscle memory for most of what I do and I … Continue reading →

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An Old School Editor

Posted on 2018-10-08 by jcs

I saw this tweet: I am experimenting with using #Emacs as my main programming environment. The last time I used emacs extensively was in college. Yes it is a bit old school but if you have to edit many files … Continue reading →

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The Decline of Penmanship

Posted on 2018-10-07 by jcs

In response to Friday’s post on going paperless, Smitty notes that one of the consequences is the decline of penmanship. He’s not the first to notice. Here’s what The Oatmeal had to say about it. The Oatmeal is, as always, … Continue reading →

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Final Update on Mojave/Emacs Problem

Posted on 2018-10-06 by jcs

Thursday night I compiled a new Emacs from the Emacs-26 branch1. Today, Friday, I updated my OS to Mojave. I’m happy to say that everything seems to be working fine. I will hold off publishing this until Saturday just to … Continue reading →

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Another Take on Going Paperless

Posted on 2018-10-05 by jcs

After I wrote the post on Aqeel Akber’s Perfect Email Setup, I browsed around his site a bit and found this other interesting post from 2016 on going paperless. I’ve written a bit on that subject in the last few … Continue reading →

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Another “Perfect” Mail Setup

Posted on 2018-10-04 by jcs

As you all know, I really like the idea of email within Emacs and collect various solutions to implementing it. I’ve long settled on mu and mu4e and have no intentions of looking for something else. Still, it’s nice to … Continue reading →

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RMSbolt

Posted on 2018-10-03 by jcs

I have always felt that knowing, at least in a general way, how a higher level language compiles down to machine code enables one to write better code in the higher level language. That’s not to say that everyone should … Continue reading →

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Reproducible Research and Literate Programming in Econometrics

Posted on 2018-10-02 by jcs

About a year and a half ago Rob Hicks wrote an interesting post on bringing literate programming and reproducible research methods to Econometrics. Hicks works mostly in Python and Matlab but also sometimes needs Strata and R. When he began … Continue reading →

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