Monthly Archives: February 2019

Running Emacs as Your OS

Posted on 2019-02-28 by jcs

I somehow missed the videos by Emacs Guy in which he records his experiment in running Emacs as his OS. Sort of. The idea is to install a minimal Linux system along with an X-server and try to do everything … Continue reading →

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A Nice Linux Desktop Setup

Posted on 2019-02-27 by jcs

Dennis Felsing over at HookRace Blog has an interesting post on his Linux desktop setup. He’s a Vim user so he doesn’t have the advantages that Emacs brings for integrating common tasks into a consistent framework. Still, he has built … Continue reading →

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Running a Bakery with Org-mode and PostgreSQL

Posted on 2019-02-26 by jcs

Piers Cawley used to be a programmer. Now he’s a baker. Following a longtime dream, Cawley opened a bakery and is now happily turning out bread instead of code. Running a small bakery doesn’t seem to offer a lot of … Continue reading →

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Reason Number Googol To Avoid Google

Posted on 2019-02-25 by jcs

Most people think of Google as an advertising company—and that is how they make their money—but I think it’s more accurate to describe them as a surveillance company. The surveillance is in service of the advertising, of course, but if … Continue reading →

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Emacs 26.1.92 Is Out

Posted on 2019-02-24 by jcs

Nicolas Petton has announced that the third pretest for Emacs 26.2, Emacs 26.1.92, is out. I compiled and installed it yesterday and have been using it as my default Emacs since then. I haven’t encountered any problems so if you … Continue reading →

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Some Words of Wisdom from Tim Bray

Posted on 2019-02-23 by jcs

Via Karl Voit I found a link to an interesting post from Tim Bray in which he discusses a variety of technical issues. I especially liked his take on Open Offices in which he says All the high-tech companies I’ve … Continue reading →

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Stephen Wolfram’s Personal Infrastructure

Posted on 2019-02-22 by jcs

Over at his blog, Stephen Wolfram writes about his personal infrastructure and workflow. Wolfram, of course, is the CEO of Wolfram Research, the company behind Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha. He describes himself as a very hands-on CEO but what’s surprising … Continue reading →

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What wc Means by Lines

Posted on 2019-02-21 by jcs

Every Unix/Linux user (and maybe Windows users too) is familiar with the wc command that counts characters, words, and lines. It an easy way to see how large a text file is and is often useful in scripts when you … Continue reading →

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Inserting the Current File Name

Posted on 2019-02-20 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has a very useful tip and piece of Elisp that many of you will find useful. The problem is how to how to insert the current file name at point, even when the point may be in … Continue reading →

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Elisp Cheat Sheet

Posted on 2019-02-19 by jcs

Musa Al-hassy has a very nice Elisp reference sheet. It doesn’t cover the Elisp run-time system so such as general Lisp constructs as used by Emacs. His table of contents gives a good idea of what’s covered: Functions Variables Block … Continue reading →

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