Monthly Archives: July 2019

Making The Results Block Executable

Posted on 2019-07-21 by jcs

Over at the Emacs Stack Exchange, shackra asks how he can make the RESULTS block of an Org babel SRC block executable by the shell. In other words, he wants to build a shell script in one block and be … Continue reading →

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Fun and Games

Posted on 2019-07-20 by jcs

For those of you living in saner parts of the world who might not know, the Irreal International Headquarters are located in Tampa, Florida, which is recognized as the lightning capital of North America. Indeed, Tampa comes from an Indian … Continue reading →

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The Speed of Offlineimap vs. Mbsync

Posted on 2019-07-19 by jcs

One of the problems faced by those of us who have moved our email operations into Emacs is how to download the emails from the Imap server. There are two popular solutions: offlineimap and mbsync. Offlineimap is written in Python … Continue reading →

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The Gauntlet Is Thrown

Posted on 2019-07-18 by jcs

I’ve written many times (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) about the open access wars between universities and academic publishers. In a move that almost certainly signals the beginning of the end game, the University of California has refused to renew … Continue reading →

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Text Based Email Clients

Posted on 2019-07-17 by jcs

Many people can’t imagine life without a shiny, GUI-based email client. The idea of using a text based client would never occur to them and some probably don’t even know there are such things. Others of us don’t want to … Continue reading →

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Update to Writing a Thesis With Org Mode

Posted on 2019-07-16 by jcs

Last year I wrote about Daniel Gomez’s post on writing a PhD thesis with Org-mode. Gomez’s post was an excellent exposition of the workflow that he used to write his thesis using Org. One of the most useful features was … Continue reading →

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Is Emacs an Editor Framework?

Posted on 2019-07-15 by jcs

Over at the Emacs sub-reddit, yep808 says that he thinks of Emacs not as an editor but as an editor framework that allows you to build the editor you really want. He asks if others share this view. It is, … Continue reading →

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Long Lines in Emacs

Posted on 2019-07-14 by jcs

One of the (legitimate) complaints about Emacs is that it doesn’t do very well with excessively long lines. Happily, this isn’t a problem for me. I write my blog posts with visual line mode enabled and fill disabled so Emacs … Continue reading →

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Reverse i-search With Ivy

Posted on 2019-07-13 by jcs

As I’ve written many times, one of my most used and useful packages is abo-abo’s Ivy/Counsel/Swiper suite. Happily, he is always tweaking it, making it better with each iteration. He latest tweak rethinks the reverse i-search command (Ctrl+r) used in … Continue reading →

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Internet Villains: Never Mind

Posted on 2019-07-12 by jcs

Last Saturday, I wrote about the UK ISP trade group that decided to nominate Mozilla for the annual Internet Villain award for the crime of making DNS lookup safer and more secure. Of course, it also made it harder for … Continue reading →

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