Tag Archives: Emacs

Another Take on Going Paperless

Posted on 2018-10-05 by jcs

After I wrote the post on Aqeel Akber’s Perfect Email Setup, I browsed around his site a bit and found this other interesting post from 2016 on going paperless. I’ve written a bit on that subject in the last few … Continue reading →

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Another “Perfect” Mail Setup

Posted on 2018-10-04 by jcs

As you all know, I really like the idea of email within Emacs and collect various solutions to implementing it. I’ve long settled on mu and mu4e and have no intentions of looking for something else. Still, it’s nice to … Continue reading →

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RMSbolt

Posted on 2018-10-03 by jcs

I have always felt that knowing, at least in a general way, how a higher level language compiles down to machine code enables one to write better code in the higher level language. That’s not to say that everyone should … Continue reading →

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Reproducible Research and Literate Programming in Econometrics

Posted on 2018-10-02 by jcs

About a year and a half ago Rob Hicks wrote an interesting post on bringing literate programming and reproducible research methods to Econometrics. Hicks works mostly in Python and Matlab but also sometimes needs Strata and R. When he began … Continue reading →

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Blogging with Org Mode

Posted on 2018-10-01 by jcs

Ambrevar (Pierre Neidhardt) has an interesting post on why and how he uses Org mode to blog. His two main criteria are that He can write his blog posts in Org mode. He was complete control over how his blog … Continue reading →

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Update on the Mojave/Emacs Problem

Posted on 2018-09-30 by jcs

This is an update on my post concerning the Emacs GUI not working on the macOS Majave update. There’s lots of useful information in the comments to that post so you should read those if you’re a Mac Emacs user … Continue reading →

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File and Directory Variables

Posted on 2018-09-29 by jcs

I must admit that I seldom use file local variables. Mostly that’s because I have a standard default configuration for each file type but it’s also because I can never remember the exact format. That’s just silly, of course, because … Continue reading →

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Emacscast #5

Posted on 2018-09-28 by jcs

Rakhim Davletkaliyev has posted the fifth episode of his excellent Emacs podcast, Emacscast. This time he talks mostly about blogging with Hugo but, as usual, he starts with a description of the changes he’s made to his configuration since the … Continue reading →

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Dedicated Frames

Posted on 2018-09-27 by jcs

Over on the Emacs subreddit, freetonik has an interesting tip for Emacs users. The idea is to have several frames each dedicated to a particular function. It made me think of Xah Lee because he likes to work (mostly) with … Continue reading →

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PSA: GUI Emacs Broken on Mojave

Posted on 2018-09-26 by jcs

As all the Apple faithful know by now, Apple released the latest version of macOS on Monday. I was literally minutes away from starting the upgrade when I stumbled upon a tweet that indicated a problem with Emacs and Mojave: … Continue reading →

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