Monthly Archives: February 2019

Zamansky: GitHub Classroom 2

Posted on 2019-02-18 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has another video out on how he uses GitHub Classroom for teaching. Like the first, it’s not really about Emacs—although he does use Emacs in the process, of course—but it’s an interesting study on a tools-based approach to … Continue reading →

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Copying the Whole Buffer

Posted on 2019-02-17 by jcs

Tim Bray tweeted a nice bit of elisp to copy the current buffer to the kill ring: For mac/emacs people: <<<< (defun copy-whole-buffer () “Command A stupid” (interactive) (save-excursion (mark-whole-buffer) (copy-region-as-kill 1 (buffer-size)))) (global-set-key [(meta a)] ‘copy-whole-buffer) <<<< [Don’t know … Continue reading →

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Selling 911 Location Data

Posted on 2019-02-16 by jcs

Speaking of John Cook’s Data Privacy twitter account, as I did yesterday, here’s an interesting item: Selling 911 location data is illegal but US carriers reportedly did it anywayhttps://t.co/cAtPd5n5Mj — Data Privacy (@data_tip) February 14, 2019 It turns out that … Continue reading →

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New Data Privacy Tip Twitter Account from John D Cook

Posted on 2019-02-15 by jcs

I’ve long been a fan of John Cook’s TeX Tips and often learn something new from them. Cook has a number of such Twitter accounts covering various aspects of Mathematics and other technical areas. I was, therefore, happy to see … Continue reading →

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Securing Your iPhone

Posted on 2019-02-14 by jcs

This is an Apple-centric post but I know a lot of Irreal readers have iPhones or iPads so it’s worth passing on. Over at Computerworld, Jonny Evans has an excellent article on How to stay as private as possible on … Continue reading →

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Sharing Data Among Org-mode Blocks

Posted on 2019-02-13 by jcs

John Kitchin has another excellent post on leveraging Emacs and Org-mode. This time, he considers sharing data between Org-mode code blocks. Most Org-mode users know about naming code blocks and using the results of the computation in another code block … Continue reading →

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Unix and Linux History from Maddog

Posted on 2019-02-12 by jcs

Older readers may know of Jon “Maddog” Hall. Although we hear less from him these days, he’s been a force in the open source movement for many years. I just came across a video in which he talks about Unix … Continue reading →

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NeoTree and Perspectives

Posted on 2019-02-11 by jcs

A lot of people like to organize their workflow around projects, mostly via Bozhidar Batsov’s excellent projectile package. Some of those people go further and use a package like perspective to provide each project with its own workspace. I don’t … Continue reading →

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Org Capture and Refiling

Posted on 2019-02-10 by jcs

Like me, Matus Goljer (fuco1) is a heavy user of Org-capture. I’ve got 11 templates that cover all sorts of events that I want to capture. Goljer has a similar number of templates but his taxonomy is much richer than … Continue reading →

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Using Keyboard Macros to Ease Drudgework

Posted on 2019-02-09 by jcs

I usually use keyboard macros to repeat some editing operation that’s too complicated for iedit, multiple cursors, or search and replace. It’s astounding how useful it can be and every Emacser should learn to use them. Recently, Arne Babenhauserheide tweeted … Continue reading →

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