Only Do What Computers Cannot
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Switch to nlinum Immediately
A lot of headings in your Org-Mode file can make Emacs unusably slow when you collapse all of them.
My original solution was to avoid collapsing them with #+STARTUP: showeverything. Major problem with that approach is that you still can’t use collapsing because if you do, Emacs because again unusable.
Months ago I switched to nlinum and now there are no more performance issues, even on the largest file that I work on.
Choosing the Right Diff Tool for You
By my idiosyncratic measures:
For small changes git diff and vc-diff are perfect.
For medium changes magit is perfect.
For large changes DeltaWalker is perfect.
SAS University Edition Setup
Today I set up SAS UE on VMWare Fusion. Everything went fine.
It allowed 4 GB of RAM allocation.
SAS UniversityEdition:Installation Guide for OS X
Requirements
- OS: OS X 10.8+, 64bit
- Allows: 2 CPU
- Recommends: Allocate max \frac{1}{2} of available RAM to VM
- Browser: Chrome
Using VMware Fusion
- Verified integrity of the download
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Extracted archive to
mkdir ~/VMWare
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Created the UE working directory
mkdir -p ~/git/github/sas/SASUniversityEdition/myfolders/
- Booted up, logged in, wrote
hello-world.sas.
Additional Configuration
- Settings
- Processors & Memory
- Processors: 2 processor cores
- Memory: 4096 MB RAM
- Other
- Isolation
- ☐ Enable Drag and Drop
- ☐ Enable Copy and Paste
- Isolation
- Processors & Memory
- Linefeeds
SAS University Edition Link Roundup
- Note: I just set it to 4 GB of RAM and it worked fine
Literate DevOps: My OS X Development System
Setting up a development system is a non-trivial investment.
This document captures the steps required and automates as much as possible. The project has other formats, too.
The Style Guide is a must read for the operator.
Org-Mode converted this manual, tedious, and error prone task to a semi-automated, nearly reproducible, and error-less process, for me. This document has never been beta tested; I am it’s only user.
Exploring Noweb Refs with Arguments
I’m studying Noweb Refs. Here is something helping me make sense of it. I asked about it on-list, too, with more details. I’m still playing with it.
Thank You Theri DeJoode and @groomformen
Thank you Theri DeJoode and @groomformen for a delightful Thursday.
It was fun and you did wonderful work.
Another Way to Notice You Are Doing Yoga
You are doing yoga when you start to notice truly astounding things that you would have never noticed for even a microsecond before you began practicing.
Org2Blog DITAA Test
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| | --+ ditaa +--> | |
| Text | +-------+ |diagram|
|Document| |!magic!| | |
| {d}| | | | |
+---+----+ +-------+ +-------+
: ^
| Lots of work |
+-------------------------+
The test succeeded by turning off thumbnail images.