Author Archives: jcs

Writing With Org Mode

Posted on 2022-12-17 by jcs

Chris Mariana has an interesting video on how to prevent losing files when writing in Org mode. It’s a useful post but not really enough to write about. The TL;DR is that it explains how to locate files that were … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Where Your Editor Runs…

Posted on 2022-12-16 by jcs

…and what it says about you. #Emacs pic.twitter.com/L63frIZxOA — William Méndez (@MrWMENDEZ) December 12, 2022 I’m sure we Emacers can all agree on the conclusion that “We are not the same.”

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Academic Writing in Emacs

Posted on 2022-12-15 by jcs

I recently came across this post by Chung-hong Chan on academic writing in Emacs that really annoyed me. It’s not anything that Chan said that put my back up but rather a common supposition that he mentioned that I and … Continue reading →

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RMS On What He Wants and Doesn’t Want in Emacs

Posted on 2022-12-14 by jcs

RMS presented a talk at the EmacsConf 2022 meeting on what he’d like to see and not see in Emacs. His first point was to dismiss the idea of replacing Elisp with something like JavaScript. Besides the technical infeasibility due … Continue reading →

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IDEs

Posted on 2022-12-13 by jcs

Renato Athaydes has an interesting post about his use of IDEs and how they are resource hogs and have a hard time operating on any but the most high powered machines. Most of you know by now that I’m not … Continue reading →

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Debugging Elisp

Posted on 2022-12-12 by jcs

Jon Eskin has a revealing post that shows how easy it is to use the Elisp debugger. The debugger, Edebug, is documented in the Emacs Lisp manual so of course it’s always available in your Emacs session. What I liked … Continue reading →

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Plan 9: If It’s Not Broke, Don’t Fix It

Posted on 2022-12-11 by jcs

I just came across an interesting article that appears to be from Francesco Nidito—although I’m not sure about the provenance—concerning the Plan 9 operating system. The gist of the post was that Plan 9 was a brilliant piece of software … Continue reading →

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The Origins of PostScript

Posted on 2022-12-10 by jcs

The IEEE Spectrum has a lovely article about the origins and early history of PostScript and how it jumpstarted desktop publishing and arguably digital printing. Most Irreal readers probably know the rudiments of the story. PostScript was developed at Adobe … Continue reading →

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Use-package Merged into Emacs 29

Posted on 2022-12-09 by jcs

Stefan Kangas just announced that use-package has been merged into the emacs-29 branch. I’m inclined to take a conservative view towards moving packages into core Emacs, believing that a package should prove its worth and stability over an extended time … Continue reading →

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Prot On Clojure and Cider

Posted on 2022-12-08 by jcs

As most Irreal readers know, Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) is looking for a new job. Part of his preparations is learning Clojure so of course he’s produced a video on using Clojure in Emacs with Clojure. It’s an elementary exposition but … Continue reading →

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