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Indentation in emacs css mode was driving me crazy. Luckily I found this blog entry who quotes this blog entry who quotes yet another source that is offline now.

These settings didn't quite work though. CSS mode had to be loaded, before setting the cssm variables worked.

The resulting block in my .emacs:

;; fix css mode
(require 'css-mode)
(setq cssm-indent-level 2)
(setq cssm-newline-before-closing-bracket t)
(setq cssm-indent-function #'cssm-c-style-indenter)
(setq cssm-mirror-mode t)

This still gives an error on the first edit on a new css file. But works as intended in normal circumstances. Back to work now

To date 40 years ago, Apollo 11 was on the way to making history. In his fascinating study Digital Apollo - Human and Machine in Spaceflight, David Mandell traces the development of computing technology supporting the Apollo project.

The book opens a window on the birth of software engineering as a discipline. Some stuff is highly unfamiliar, like programming with "core ropes" .

sewing a core rope

The permanent memory, which stored the flight programs, consisted of a complex series of wires running in and out of magnetic cores that determined if a particular bit in a memory location was a one or a zero.

Other issues are shockingly recognizable after all those years.