Lot of posts recently about the desire to reduce RSI from too much keyboard use in Emacs. Although I didn’t look up any studies or evidence of this, the idea of hacking how to handle keybindings in Emacs is always interesting.
God mode is one way to “simplify” things.
Basically you go in and out of the mode, and when in it, single key strokes are automatically prefaced with a control, and meta commands are prefaced with a g instead.
Author: grant
MELPA Stable
Bozhidar posted about a MELPA based repository for stable packages builds (tags), MELPA-stable. Nice option and still not sure how to selectively pull projects from both stable and unstable given that the former only has 556 packages versus the richer 1796 of the latter.
Entropy
In information theory, entropy is a measure of the uncertainty in a random variable.
(via Wikipedia)
Terminal utilities specific to OSX
Nice list thanks to Caleb for the link.
How to keep OSX awake
If you have long-running tasks you surely want to keep your Mac awake to at allow them to complete, or more. A lot of GUI applications claimed to fit the bill but the first one I tried let the Mac go to sleep! The solution is caffeinate; run it from the terminal.
ADDENDUM
Here is the flag for preventing the machine from sleeping, perhaps the most important one:
-s Create an assertion to prevent the system from sleeping. This asser-
tion is valid only when system is running on AC power.
GNU Emacs Manuals Online
Such a short page which encompasses direction to massive tomes of wisdom.
Time and care should be taken reading them.
How to choose a compressed file manager for OSX
The requirements were really simple: runs on Mavericks, has a nice GUI, lets
you browse the archive without extracting it, and may both create and extract
ZIP/TAR/RAR/GZ/TGZ/BZ2.
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How to chose a virus scanner for OSX
The requirements were really simple: runs on Mavericks, real time scanning on file access including compressed files, checks for Windows virii, and scans email messages (and attachments).
Managing bibliography references with Docear
Looks interesting.