Monthly Archives: April 2022

Tony Aldon: Another Wgrep Workflow

Posted on 2022-04-20 by jcs

Ever since I read Abo-abo’s post on using wgrep to edit multiple files, I’ve been a huge fan of using grep to search for some regular expression in multiple file, write enable the results buffer with wgrep, make changes to … Continue reading →

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Never Say Never

Posted on 2022-04-19 by jcs

Some time ago, I stopped following politics and even stopped watching the news or reading a newspaper. I’m a much happier person since I did. Still, sometimes it means that I miss something important to me. The latest such example … Continue reading →

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How I Spent My Summer Vacation

Posted on 2022-04-18 by jcs

Well, not me: Tom Lyon. His post was actually entitled My Summer at Bell Labs and tells the story of his summer internship at the Labs. Regular readers know I’m a sucker for this type of thing so of course … Continue reading →

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Emacs and Calibre

Posted on 2022-04-17 by jcs

Garjola Dindi has a very interesting post on using Calibre from within Emacs. Dindi already read his books from within Emacs using nov.el for Epubs and pdf-tools for PDFs but because he manages his library with Calibre, he had to … Continue reading →

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ERC: The Builtin Emacs IRC Chat Client

Posted on 2022-04-16 by jcs

Derek Taylor over at DistroTube has a nice video up on ERC, the builtin Emacs IRC chat client. IRC is, of course, invisible to most of the general public and maybe even some of the younger nerds. It’s a very … Continue reading →

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Monorepositories

Posted on 2022-04-15 by jcs

One of the controversies—probably not ascending to the level of holy war—in our field is whether we should keep our version controlled source code in several repositories or a single monorepository. The correct answer is, of course, “it depends”. Still, … Continue reading →

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A Second Brain in Plain Text

Posted on 2022-04-14 by jcs

Knowledge workers—which includes engineers, of course—often find they’re trying to hold too much information in their heads. When that happens, they frequently turn to what’s popularly known as a “second brain”. This can take many forms. There are dedicated applications, … Continue reading →

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Managers Want An End To Work From Home

Posted on 2022-04-13 by jcs

It’s no secret that many middle managers recognize the existential risk that working from home represents to their jobs. It’s no surprise, therefore, that they are doing everything they can to put an end to it. According to an article … Continue reading →

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Curved Quotes in *HELP* and *MESSAGES* Buffers

Posted on 2022-04-12 by jcs

Since Emacs 25, single and double quote in the *HELP* and *MESSAGES* buffers are transliterated to their curved equivalents. This is usually, but not always, what you want. It turns out you can control whether or not the transliteration takes … Continue reading →

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A Research Work Flow in Emacs and Org-mode

Posted on 2022-04-11 by jcs

Sam Wallace has an interesting post on how he takes research notes. He’s a Mathematics PhD student so he reads lots of papers that he has to take notes on as well as class notes and his own research projects. … Continue reading →

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