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Jason Blevins
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Jason Blevins's personal blog at jblevins.org covers economics and programming. Since 2008, 51 different Hacker News readers have linked it 56 times, most often “(Emacs) Keyboard Shortcuts for Editing Text Fields in OS X (2015)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Professor of Economics at The Ohio State University. Includes CV, research, teaching materials, and software projects.
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- (Emacs) Keyboard Shortcuts for Editing Text Fields in OS X (2015)13 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2018-01-26
- Deft for Emacs9 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2018-07-15
- /log/ssh-vulnkey6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2018-05-05
- Markdown Mode for Emacs5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-01-13
- /projects/deft/5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2011-08-22
- /log/kbd4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-02-03
- LaTeX CV Template3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-09-21
- /log/ssh-vulnkey2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-05-30
What Hacker News says?
This is also not exclusive to Vim. I don't use any plugins and I have a lot of common key bindings (especially for text editing) I can use on every text editor field on my Mac (which are pretty similar on Windows). Heck I even have Emacs keybindings on OS level on macOS nearly everywhere (without installing plugins): http://jblevins.org/log/kbd So Vim is an addition where as my key bindings work everywhere except wh…
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on “Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim”Submitted Deft -- easy note taking for Emacs as a story · 142 points
HN discussionAlso deft, if you are not using org-mode. http://jblevins.org/projects/deft/
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on “Standard Notes – A notes app with a focus on longevity, portability, and privacy”Submitted LaTeX CV Template as a story · 95 points
HN discussionThe origin of those shared commands isn't from readline, but rather from emacs key bindings that made it into both readline and MacOS: https://jblevins.org/log/kbd
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on “Ask HN: What things have richly rewarded the time invested in mastering them?”Submitted (Emacs) Keyboard Shortcuts for Editing Text Fields in OS X (2015) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou can combine org-mode with deft for quick note organization and lookup. https://jblevins.org/projects/deft/
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on “Keeping a plaintext “did” file”Submitted Deft for Emacs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt could be interesting to try to match those keys to the ones generated by Debian during the OpenSSH vulnerability [1] period. [1] http://jblevins.org/log/ssh-vulnkey
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on “Auditing GitHub users’ SSH key quality”Submitted Blink Shell (iOS) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI recently discovered that macOS has native support for these Emacs key bindings ( https://jblevins.org/log/kbd ) on it's textfields. This includes things like text editors, browser address bars, input fields and of course all terminal emulators. I still prefer Vim as my editor, but learned these key combo's because they are just so portable.
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on “Moving efficiently in the CLI”Submitted Markdown Mode for Emacs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionJust checking... the Emacs + standard macOS shortcuts don't work for you? Ctrl-A/E or Cmd+left/right arrows for start/end of line Option+left/right for prev/next word and more here: http://jblevins.org/log/kbd Disclaimer: I use an Apple Wireless Keyboard or other BT keyboard, not the Smart Keyboard. YMMV. (Edit: line breaks)
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on “Apple’s Guidelines Now Allow Executable Code in Educational Apps and Dev Tools”Submitted (Emacs) Keyboard Shortcuts for Editing Text Fields in OS X as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFor short notes I've been using deft[1] on emacs. It gives a Notational Velocity like interface for searching/viewing within emacs. The actual note-taking is via org-mode. For notes from online courses, I recently started using the stock Notes app on macOS/iOS because of the Pencil support on the iPad. Not sure if this helps as I don't know what platform/editor you use and I wouldn't expect you to switch either for…
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on “Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?”Submitted Airline Industry Datasets as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt's been a while since I used a Mac but my recollection is that the same Emacs style key bindings were available for all text fields pretty much without exception. https://jblevins.org/log/kbd
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on “Switching from macOS to Pop_OS”Submitted Scientific Computing in Python as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMany of these Emacs/readline shortcuts work in 99% of Mac apps too, which is nice. https://jblevins.org/log/kbd
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on “How to navigate directories faster with Bash (2015)”If you're on macOS, you can move around without reaching for the arrow keys on a regular keyboard using emacs style movement keys. https://jblevins.org/log/kbd Chrome changed something a couple months ago and now some of these do the wrong thing so you have to use Safari.
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on “Ultimate Hacking Keyboard”Debian maintainers are experts at touching things they shouldn't and creating a mess in the process. The worst case, by far, was when they broke the RNG of SSH key generation: https://jblevins.org/log/ssh-vulnkey#:~:text=In%20May%202008... . Those guys are out of control and constantly having conflicts with upstream, I'm astounded to see the amount of support I see for debian in this thread.
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on “KeePassXC Debian maintainer has removed all network features”Periodic reminder that many emacs-like keybindings exist in almost every text field in macOS: Ctrl A, E, P, N, K, Y, T, and probably others I'm forgetting (start of line, end of line, previous line, next line, kill (delete everything to the end of the line and put it in a special pasteboard), yank (paste from that special pasteboard) and transpose characters). Edit: more complete list here: https://jblevins.org/log/…
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on “Entering text in the terminal is complicated”> how do you manage information from digital content, e.g., notes from reading technical/research articles or blog posts? If I could always remember the right keywords to search for the articles I had in mind, I'd just do that. For online content, most of the time I'll wait for a later 'cache miss' before any bookmarks/notes. (I'd either come across content when procrastinating on HN/etc., or from looking for it whi…
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on “Ask HN: How to Take Good Notes?”I use deft. A hot key brings up the list, then typing narrows the list based on name or content. https://jblevins.org/projects/deft/
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on “Standard Notes is a safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work”Personally I'm using Dropbox for stuff like this, using PlainText on iOS devices, Notational Velocity (well, NvAlt) on my Mac and increasingly [Deft]( http://jblevins.org/projects/deft/ ) from within Emacs. I know, there's Org Mode, but I'm more a free-form guy, same reason why I never used one of those monstrously popular GTD applications…
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on “Why every programmer should have a Tiddlywiki”My main authoring tool is then Emacs Markdown Mode ( https://jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode/ ). For data entry, it comes with some bells and whistles similar to org-mode, like C-c C-l for inserting links etc. I seldom export my notes for external usage, but if it is the case, I use lowdown ( https://kristaps.bsd.lv/lowdown/ ) which also comes with some nice output targets (among the more unusual are Groff and T…
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on “Beautifying Org Mode in Emacs (2018)”> Apparently there aren't any groups reverse engineering every WhatsApp update to figure out if it's still encrypting everything. If that were true--in the case of WhatsApp, I'm pretty sure it's not, as another poster here pointed out--it would be equally true for any open source app. Like, I dunno, Debian ( https://jblevins.org/log/ssh-vulnkey ). There's absolutely a place for reproducible builds and binary transpa…
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on “Re: Moxie on Web3”It's been a while. I should have restricted it to Debian: http://jblevins.org/log/ssh-vulnkey
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on “TrueCrypt must not die”It’s worth a mention that although it’s not all that widely known, all native text fields under OS X come with a subset of emacs key binds built-in, and this includes web page text fields in Safari, Chrome, and Firefox so if you like emacs keybinds and run OS X you’re ready to go right out of the box, no need to install anything. See http://jblevins.org/log/kbd for further detail.
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on “Wasavi – a browser extension that transforms TEXTAREA elements into a VI editor”Coming from the distribution that didn't generate SSH keys correctly for two years (insane security impact), that's a bit rich. Source: https://jblevins.org/log/ssh-vulnkey
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on “Dear "Security Researchers"”
