Monthly Archives: July 2020

A Shortcut Manager for My Emacs-centric Workstation

Posted on 2020-07-21 by jcs

At first glance, this post might appear to be of interest only to Mac users but most of the ideas also apply to other systems. As I’ve written many times, Emacs is at the center of my computing workflow. Almost … Continue reading →

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Emacs for Everything

Posted on 2020-07-20 by jcs

Alex Schroeder is an Emacs user who, like me, does as much as he can in Emacs. Also like me, he spends most of his tube time in Emacs or a browser. Unlike me, he uses EWW for a good … Continue reading →

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Emacs Keybindings on macOS Redux

Posted on 2020-07-19 by jcs

I just saw this tweet from Vivek Haldar Little-known fact: Common #Emacs Shortcuts (C-{a, e, k, y, n, p, b, f}) work *universally* in Mac OS X. In any text box in any app. — Vivek Haldar (@vivekhaldar) July 18, … Continue reading →

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Polyglot Documents in Org-mode

Posted on 2020-07-18 by jcs

The University of Oxford Software Engineering Research group (OxRSE) has an interesting post on how they use Org-mode to publish tutorial material with the examples in different programming languages. The idea is to present the concepts, which are language agnostic, … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Word as a Random Number Generator

Posted on 2020-07-17 by jcs

As you all know, Word is one of my favorite whipping boys. I often say it’s the worst piece of software ever foisted on an unsuspecting public. Doubtless that’s hyperbolic but Word is something I try never to use. Karl … Continue reading →

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Emacsclient and macOS

Posted on 2020-07-16 by jcs

As I’ve said many times, Emacs is the first thing I start after a boot and it stays running until the next boot or I update packages that need a restart. That means that Emacs startup time is a non-issue … Continue reading →

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Websockets from Emacs

Posted on 2020-07-15 by jcs

Websockets are a way of providing two way communication between a Web server and a browser. Their benefit is that the server can send data asynchronously to the browser. That differs from the normal protocol of the browser sending a … Continue reading →

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Idiosyncrasies in Academic Publishing

Posted on 2020-07-14 by jcs

If you’ve been around for a while, you know that I’m not a fan of academic journal publishers and their rent seeking. Happily, those days are years behind me now but for thousands of academics the process and its indignities … Continue reading →

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Ransomware: Prevention & Recovery

Posted on 2020-07-13 by jcs

A couple of days ago, I mentioned Backblaze and their newsletter with an article about Tips for working remotely. That newsletter has a link to an older article that discusses how to prevent a ransomware attack and recover if you … Continue reading →

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Magit: The Emacs Killer App

Posted on 2020-07-12 by jcs

Over at DistroTube, Derek Taylor has posted a video that makes the case that for many people, Magit is the killer app for Emacs. He thinks that’s especially true if you’re primarily a developer. I use Magit everyday all day … Continue reading →

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