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Arno Gruen the insanity of normality


this blog post?

https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/effective-emacs

Get in the habit of using Ctrl-r (isearch-backward) and Ctrl-s (isearch-forward) for moving around in the document. Whenever you need to jump the cursor backward or forward more than about 5 lines, and you can see the target location, you should be using i-search.

To do it effectively, you don't necessarily need to search for the exact word where you want to put the cursor. Let your eye defocus slightly and take in the whole paragraph or region around the target point, and choose a word that looks reasonably unique or easy to type. Then i-search for it to navigate to it. You may need to hit Ctrl-r or Ctrl-s repeatedly if your anchor word turns out not to be unique. But Emacs will highlight all the matches, so if there are more than a couple of them, Ctrl-g out of the search and choose another anchor word.

It's difficult to overemphasize how powerful this technique is, once you've mastered it. Mastering it simply requires that you do it repeatedly until your fingers do it "automatically". Emacs eventually becomes like an extension of your body, and you'll be performing hundreds of different keystrokes and mini-techniques like this one without thinking about them. It's comparable to the hundreds of subtle techniques you acquire for driving a car well.


I only needed InDesign to generate print files for some publishers and Scribus fills that gap for me.


Thank you for propagating this.


I dump my sqlite3 database in the back, up my feet and rest in peace.


this website is mentioned best on Atlas Browser 25A362 in 1920x1080 resolution


The manager is spot on, how can passive aggressive comments even annoy you. Should run off like water. You are feeding the troll and complaining about it is not leading. Burnout means you are taking this personally which it isn’t since any lead will get the treatment. If he is really incurable toxic give him enough rope.


iP 12 runofthemill, Orion, same


I was tempted for a moment but I think it needs JavaScript


I like the article and agree with it. I am confident those rocket scientists will eventually do the right thing and build real websites after trying everything else. No need to regulate.


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