Monthly Archives: January 2023

On The Collaboration of Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie

Posted on 2023-01-11 by jcs

Periodically I see a reference to Ken Thompson’s 1983 Turning Award Lecture, Reflections on Trusting Trust, and I almost always end up commenting on it. It’s, by far, my favorite CS paper and I’m always delighted at the brilliant trick … Continue reading →

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Time To Ditch Your Wallet

Posted on 2023-01-10 by jcs

It’s been a while since I’ve written the walletless aspect of my quest for a digital lifestyle. Those of you who are long time readers know that my end goal to to be able to leave the house with nothing … Continue reading →

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Customizing Org Mode Exports

Posted on 2023-01-09 by jcs

I have a longstanding fascination with document layout. It’s something I first learned from Rich Stevens. His books were always visually beautiful with a layout that showed an obsessive attention to detail. Fortunately, he wrote about his process extensively on … Continue reading →

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Referring To Lines Between Regular Expressions In Org

Posted on 2023-01-08 by jcs

Sacha Chua has a problem. From an Org file, she’d like to link to and possibly include a set of consecutive lines in another (or, I suppose, the same) file. The problem is that the target file may not be … Continue reading →

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Completions In Emacs 29

Posted on 2023-01-07 by jcs

Speaking of Emacs 29 goodness, Robert Enzmann has a post that describes the new completions functionality in Emacs 29. Those changes mainly involve new configuration settings that subtly change how completions work. The first set of settings items configure what … Continue reading →

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Emacs 29 Feature Freeze

Posted on 2023-01-06 by jcs

There’s some good news on the Emacs front. Eli Zaretskii writes that it’s time for a feature freeze on Emacs 29. This is, of course, the first step in the final Emacs 29 release process. Eli says the goal is … Continue reading →

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Org Headline Tips

Posted on 2023-01-05 by jcs

Nicolas Martyanoff has a (very) short post on some tips for dealing with Org mode headlines. There are three of them: Do not split lines when adding headlines This is a way to add another headline even if you are … Continue reading →

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Exporting Org To Standard Manuscript Format

Posted on 2023-01-04 by jcs

Chris Maiorana has a very nice video up on how he configured Org mode to export to standard manuscript format. The standard manuscript format is the format that’s used—or at least used to be used—for submitting manuscripts for novels and … Continue reading →

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Reasons For and Against Emacs

Posted on 2023-01-03 by jcs

Matthew Weber is a Vim guy. He really loves Vim and finds it the ideal editor for him. Still, he’s not dogmatic about it and acknowledges its shortcomings. He’s tried Emacs several times and could never make it stick but, … Continue reading →

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Another Take On Rss

Posted on 2023-01-02 by jcs

I’ve written numerous posts—the latest one here—about my admiration for RSS and how I use it to deliver interesting posts directly to my Emacs. I’m an unabashed fan and have never understood those who claim it died when Google Reader … Continue reading →

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