Monthly Archives: March 2019

Almost There

Posted on 2019-03-11 by jcs

As regular readers know, I try to live the digital life as much as I can. By “digital life” I mean eschewing paper and paper processes and running as much of my life as possible with my phone and computers. … Continue reading →

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Guess What Day It Is

Posted on 2019-03-10 by jcs

No, not hump day. It’s the 46th anniversary of the release of Pink Floyd’s iconic Dark Side of the Moon. As I do every year on this date, I’d like to say, “Happy Birthday” to one of the greatest and … Continue reading →

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Zamansky: A Quick Review of Editors

Posted on 2019-03-09 by jcs

Mike Zamansky posted a quick review of programming editors and IDEs. It’s actually intended to be about picking a Java Editor/IDE in support of Java programming courses for teachers but it’s more generally useful. Zamansky, of course, is an Emacs … Continue reading →

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Texting and Line Editing

Posted on 2019-03-08 by jcs

In the past, I’ve written disparagingly about line editing as practiced with the ed editor. That’s not to say that ed isn’t a great editor or that it doesn’t have its uses even today, just that no one (in their … Continue reading →

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Another Org-based Writing Environment

Posted on 2019-03-07 by jcs

John Borwick was looking for a writing environment that suited him. He’d tried Scrivener and some of the other tools but they didn’t work for him. Then he saw Jay Dixit’s video that I wrote about back in 2015 and … Continue reading →

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UC Strikes a Blow for Open Access

Posted on 2019-03-06 by jcs

The University of California has struck a blow for the Open Access movement by terminating its subscriptions to all Elsevier journals. UC and Elsevier have been in negotiation for some time trying to find a way to make UC research … Continue reading →

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Today I Learned…

Posted on 2019-03-05 by jcs

…about the delete-horizontal-space command (bound to Meta+\). It deletes all spaces and tabs around the point. You can delete just the white space before the point by specifying the universal argument. I learned about the command from a reddit post … Continue reading →

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Org-mode 9.2.2 is Out

Posted on 2019-03-04 by jcs

Bastien tweets that the latest Org-mode is available: #emacs #orgmode 9.2.2 is out. Enjoy! — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) March 4, 2019 After the recent problem with the agenda being broken, I decided to stop living on the bleeding edge and … Continue reading →

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Some Wisdom on Pipelines

Posted on 2019-03-03 by jcs

Over at his blog, Ted Dziuba has posted a valuable piece of wisdom that is easy to forget. The TL;DR on the wisdom is that many tasks for which we instinctively turn to heavy-weight, distributed tools are more easily and … Continue reading →

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Refugees

Posted on 2019-03-02 by jcs

As documented in my last two posts, the editor holy wars wage on. Meanwhile, the ed partisans that you didn’t even know existed are inviting refugees from the war to come home to the Unix standard editor. They even have … Continue reading →

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