Monthly Archives: April 2019

Using C-x 4 in Emacs

Posted on 2019-04-30 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has an interesting post on the Emacs C-x 4 bindings. My normal Emacs window configuration is two side-by-side windows in a full screen frame and my workflow often involves opening related buffers in the two windows so … Continue reading →

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Drawing Figures in Math Lectures

Posted on 2019-04-29 by jcs

A month ago I wrote about Gilles Castel’s system for taking notes with LaTeX during Math lectures. As I wrote at the time, I was astounded that he could type the LaTeX fast enough to keep up with the lecturer. … Continue reading →

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Orgmode-TV: How I Plan My Days

Posted on 2019-04-28 by jcs

Rainer König is back with another video. A few days ago, he published a blog post on how he uses Org-mode for his daily plan. The basic idea is that every morning he brings up an Org template for what … Continue reading →

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An Easy Tutorial for Setting Up Mu4e and Mbsync

Posted on 2019-04-27 by jcs

Those of you who have been around for a while know that I’m a huge fan of mu/mu4e. I use it everyday to read and send all my email. You may also remember that I had a difficult time getting … Continue reading →

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Literature Management with Emacs

Posted on 2019-04-26 by jcs

I saw a query that had a link to a post from a couple of years ago that I missed at the time. It’s by Anand Iyer who is—or, perhaps, was—a graduate student and therefore is constantly reading papers. When … Continue reading →

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A Short Org Table Tutorial

Posted on 2019-04-25 by jcs

Someone tweeted a link to this very nice Org table tutorial from 2013. Even though it’s fairly old, the information is still up to date and useful. I learned a couple of tricks that I either didn’t know or had … Continue reading →

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Vivek Haldar on Why He’s Video Blogging

Posted on 2019-04-24 by jcs

I’ve written a few times about Vivek Haldar’s Read A Paper videos. They’re vlogs that “read” a seminal paper in Computer Science. They’re really great. If I’ve already read the paper, that particular vlog serves to remind me of the … Continue reading →

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Vivek Haldar: Global Variables

Posted on 2019-04-23 by jcs

Vivek Haldar has been blogging up a storm with his video readings of seminal CS papers. I’ve written about a few of them but there’s lots more. See his blog for an up-to-date list. A recent post was about the … Continue reading →

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The Power of Vanilla Emacs

Posted on 2019-04-22 by jcs

There’s an interesting blog post by bendersteed that discusses the power of vanilla Emacs. Emacs, he says, has a lot of useful packages but we shouldn’t underestimate the power of built-in commands that have nearly the same function. He notes, … Continue reading →

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The Dream Draws Nearer

Posted on 2019-04-21 by jcs

If you’re a hardcore Emacser or Lisper, you’ve probably always drooled over the famous space-cadet keyboard. Just think, you’d have keys for all four bucky bits, not to mention a multitude of other keys with no apparent use if you … Continue reading →

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