Re:Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into ...
by jordigh on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @08:44PM
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Hard to tell at this resolution, but it looks like he's using a fairly bare X setup with a tiling window manager and only one Emacs frame on the left. The colours and layout on Emacs look like org-mode. Does he write with org-mode? I would have expected him to write bare TeX, of course. Maybe he's doing something else with org-mode.
He's got Xeyes on the right, and the shell windows could conceivably be Emacs too, but if so, he's customised them to remove the minibuffer.
Re:Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into ...
by r85804306610 on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @09:19PM
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his fvwm config is public, and there's a screenshot floating around, if you want to take a closer look https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/screen.jpeg
the only mistake you won't be able to correct from observing screenshot is the "look like org-mode" thing. it's https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/programs/color-mo... minor mode which lets you highlight arbitrary lines in a buffer.
Re:Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into ...
by offByJuan on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @10:34AM
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βThe best way to communicate from one human being to another is through story,β Knuth said.
Great quote and great insight. Understanding how the brain works and is stimulated augments communication. Especially important for dry, theoretical subjects.
Re:Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into ...
by ta988 on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @11:22PM
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Look how he use only a single screen and has this extraordinary device nobody uses anymore left of his screen but proves to be one of the best tool to dig deep into code.
Like the 5th picture down you can see him standing (he uses a standing desk!) and if you blow up the screen, you can see part of an emacs window on the left hand side. I believe he also was using emacs shell windows as well, but not 100% sure.
Direct Link: https://d2r55xnwy6nx47.cloudfront.net/uploads/2020/04/DK_VC_...
I can't emphasize enough how incredibly nice and welcoming he is. He is bursting with enthusiasm for computers, and my wife and his wife had to almost restrain him so he would sit for his pictures, because he would start talking to me again about computer related stuff.