Monthly Archives: September 2021

Org-mode 9.5 Is Out

Posted on 2021-09-30 by jcs

Bastien writes to tell us that Org-mode 9.5 has been released. The big thing about the release is the new citation engine but there are lots of other changes too. You can see what’s in the new release by perusing … Continue reading →

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Make Scripts Executable Automatically

Posted on 2021-09-29 by jcs

Bozhidar Batsov has a splendid tip over at Emacs Redux. I’m pretty sure he’s mentioned it before but it’s so useful it bears repeating. The tip is how to make scripts executable. “Scripts” means a file that has a shebang … Continue reading →

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Easy Draw

Posted on 2021-09-28 by jcs

The other day, I wrote about line drawing tools in Emacs. For those who like interactive systems, I mentioned ditaa, which takes an ASCII art diagram and turns it into a pretty PNG file. AKIYAMA Kouhei (misohena) has a project … Continue reading →

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Spanish Punctuation in Org-mode

Posted on 2021-09-27 by jcs

The other day, I saw this tweet from John Cook’s TeX Tips Twitter account: Spanish punctuation: Can use !` and ?` for inverted exclamation points and question marks. — TeX and Typography (@TeXtip) September 24, 2021 I was vaguely aware … Continue reading →

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Another Piece Falls Into Place In The COVID Puzzle

Posted on 2021-09-26 by jcs

The Intercept_ has just reported on a 2018 DARPA grant proposal for gain-of-function research on corona viruses. It’s another piece of evidence in the question of the provenance of COVID-19. That question is the contentious issue of whether COVID-19 had … Continue reading →

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Writing Elisp Functions

Posted on 2021-09-25 by jcs

John Kitchin is back with another in his series of videos comparing Python and Elisp programming. This time it’s about writing Elisp functions. Earlier, Kitchin made a video discussing how to write Python functions. This video is a followup that … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Dark Mode, Like It Or Not

Posted on 2021-09-24 by jcs

I should have been suspicious. The Minions have been uncharacteristically quiet lately and behaving themselves; until they weren’t. Then, of course, they sprung another light-mode/dark-mode post on me. It turns out there are a lot of sociopaths out there. Here’s … Continue reading →

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Drawing Diagrams in Emacs

Posted on 2021-09-23 by jcs

Junji Zhi has an interesting post on drawing diagrams in Emacs. He wanted to draw diagrams for system modeling and do it from within Emacs. There are several ways of accomplishing that but Zhi chose Mermaid. It basically provides a … Continue reading →

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Iteration with Elisp

Posted on 2021-09-22 by jcs

John Kitchen has important things to do so naturally he’s procrastinating. That’s probably bad for him but it’s good for us because he has another Elisp video up. This one considers various ways of iterating in Elisp. Earlier, he had … Continue reading →

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String Formatting

Posted on 2021-09-21 by jcs

One of the things we programmers do all the time is to build strings of the sort In a survey of 342 programmers, 312 preferred Emacs. where the two numbers and the string “Emacs” are variables. If, like me, you … Continue reading →

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