Monthly Archives: February 2012

Finding Org Headers And Links

Today I was looking through Xah Lee’s ErgoEmacs Google+ Page (there’s a ton of interesting stuff there—you should check it out) when I came across this post in which someone asks how to find links in an Org mode buffer. … Continue reading

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Lexical Binding In Emacs

A while ago in Lexical Scoping In Emacs Lisp I wrote that Emacs 24 will (finally) introduce lexical binding. Trawling through the EmacsWiki today I came across a page, Dynamic Binding Vs Lexical Binding, that describes the differences between the … Continue reading

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The Solution To Piracy

Paul Tassi has a nice aritcle in Forbes entitled You Will Never Kill Piracy, and Piracy Will Never Kill You. In it, he makes an observation that I think, while common, is right on the mark. That observation is that … Continue reading

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Does Elisp Suck?

One of the links from the CategoryCode page that I wrote about yesterday is the Why Does Elisp Suck page. The idea is to give people a place to be grumpy about Elisp. My first thought was that, really, Elisp … Continue reading

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Learning Elisp Idioms

I’ve said before that Emacs Lisp is pretty much like any other Lisp except for its library, which is specialized for editing tasks. One of the things I like about Xah Lee’s Emacs Lisp Tutorial is that it doesn’t concern … Continue reading

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TSA: So Incompetent It Surprises Even Me

We here at Irreal, like almost everyone else in the world, are not fans of the Transportation Security Administration. Their ability to combine heavy-handedness with incompetence exceeds even that of the typical DMV office. Still, the sheer assclownery of their … Continue reading

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