Monthly Archives: January 2019

Zamansky 55: Irony Completions

Posted on 2019-01-21 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has posted another video in his Using Emacs Series. This time it’s about configuring Irony to get completions for C++. Personally, I don’t use things like company-mode and irony-mode because I don’t like having random buffers pop up … Continue reading →

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Planning Your Life with Org Mode

Posted on 2019-01-20 by jcs

Mats Tage Axelsson over at Linux Hint has the first in a series of posts about planning your life with Org Mode. This first post focuses on scheduling and capturing with Org-mode. There’s not anything new for those already using … Continue reading →

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Parentheses, Elisp, and Other Things That Aren’t Going Away

Posted on 2019-01-19 by jcs

It appears that I’m temporarily at the end of the Internet: I can’t find anything interesting to write about today. Instead, here’s a rant. I’ve written before that the Lisp Community’s well-known crabbiness with n00bs is probably the result of … Continue reading →

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Multics Emacs

Posted on 2019-01-18 by jcs

Back in 1979, Bernard Greenberg wrote a long document about Emacs on Multics. If you’re interested in the history of Emacs and how it evolved, you’ll probably enjoy reading through the document. It’s fairly long and detailed but all that … Continue reading →

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The Loneliness of the Lisp Programmer

Posted on 2019-01-17 by jcs

This struck me as funny. And all too true.

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Parsing Org Files

Posted on 2019-01-16 by jcs

Xah Lee has a new and useful tutorial out. It’s about the APIs available for parsing Org files. None of the information is new—it’s all documented somewhere—but it’s very useful to have everything in one place. As Lee discovered, it … Continue reading →

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Detangle

Posted on 2019-01-15 by jcs

For some reason I haven’t been following Yisrael Dov’s Emacs is Great series of videos on Emacs. That was definitely a mistake and I’m going to start paying more attention from now on. In the meantime I’d like to mention … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 54: Org Tables

Posted on 2019-01-14 by jcs

Mike Zamansky is back with another video in his Using Emacs Series. This time it’s about Org tables and their spreadsheet capabilities. One of Zamansky’s duties as a Hunter professor is to evaluate Macaulay Honors College applications. Like many of … Continue reading →

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Inbox Zero, Inbox Infinity

Posted on 2019-01-13 by jcs

Karl Voit has an interesting post on email management and the concepts of inbox zero and inbox infinity. You probably already know about inbox zero. It’s the concept that you don’t let emails pile up in your inbox. You read … Continue reading →

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Bozhidar Batsov’s Year End Emacs Review

Posted on 2019-01-12 by jcs

In my continued atonement for failing to produce a year end Emacs review, here’s an offering from Bozhidar Batsov. Batsov has done a lot of interesting work—including Prelude, CIDER, and Projectile—so his take on things is worth noting. Oddly, he … Continue reading →

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