Monthly Archives: June 2014

Mutable String and Emacs Buffer Passing Style

Posted on 2014-06-05 by jcs

Speaking of Christopher Wellons, he’s got a very interesting post over at null program on mutable strings and Emacs buffer passing style. Wellons starts by pointing out that strings in Emacs Lisp, like many other languages, have a fixed size … Continue reading →

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Sacha Chats with Christopher Wellons

Posted on 2014-06-04 by jcs

The invaluable Sacha Chua has posted another in her series of Emacs chats. This time it’s with Christopher Wellons. As regular readers know, I’m an admirer of Wellons and have written about him several times (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). … Continue reading →

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Grant Rettke’s Take on Narrowing to Multiple Regions

Posted on 2014-06-03 by jcs

Grant Rettke has his own take on a function to enable narrowing to multiple regions of a buffer. I learned about the idea from comments to a post on another matter and wrote about it here. Rettke takes the example … Continue reading →

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Turning On Undo in a Temporary Buffer

Posted on 2014-06-02 by jcs

Today I learned something new from a short post on Xah Lee’s blog. The idea is that you’ve written a command that generates output in a temporary buffer and you want to enable the undo function for the buffer so … Continue reading →

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Second Year of Daily Posts

Posted on 2014-06-01 by jcs

Today is the second anniversary of daily posts on Irreal. For the past two years, Irreal has published at least one post a day. Last year I remarked that it was a lot harder than one would think. Nothing that’s … Continue reading →

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