Author Archives: jcs

Editing macOS Text Fields with Emacs

Posted on 2021-11-14 by jcs

If you’re like me, you hate dealing with text outside of Emacs. Even those of us who spend as much time as we can inside Emacs have to interact with other applications. In my case, that’s mostly Safari. The problem … Continue reading →

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Search Hydra

Posted on 2021-11-13 by jcs

If you use the Ivy/Swiper/Counsel package, you know that are a lot of ways to do searches. So many that it can hard to remember what they all are and how to invoke them. Fortunately, Yuri Tricys has come to … Continue reading →

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Read Meat Friday: Chrome Is Not Your Friend Either

Posted on 2021-11-12 by jcs

A few months ago, I noted that Google is not your friend. You’d think everyone would know this by now but apparently lots of folks don’t. As a corollary to that truism, we also have, “Chrome is not your friend … Continue reading →

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Three N00b Emacs Mistakes

Posted on 2021-11-11 by jcs

Derek Taylor has a video that calls out what he says are Three HUGE Mistakes New Emacs Users Make. He says that many Emacs n00bs have a hard time getting started because they make the same three basic mistakes. The … Continue reading →

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Getting Closer to Walletless

Posted on 2021-11-10 by jcs

Those of you who have been around Irreal for a while are aware of my quest to ditch my wallet and be able to leave my house and conduct my business with nothing but my iPhone. I am getting closer. … Continue reading →

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Updating describe-bindings

Posted on 2021-11-09 by jcs

One of the things you often want to know is what keybindings are available for the current buffer. Emacs, of course, has a command for that: describe-bindings, bound to Ctrl+h b. I never use it. The problem is that it … Continue reading →

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How To Be an Ankle Biter

Posted on 2021-11-08 by jcs

It’s Sunday night and I’m completely unmotivated to write something coherent and interesting for tomorrow’s (i.e. today’s) post. Instead, I offer this oldie but goody from the Way Back Machine that they title Things to say when you’re losing a … Continue reading →

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Blogs and RSS

Posted on 2021-11-07 by jcs

Brandon Quakkelaar has an interesting post on Social Media, Blogs, and RSS. His feelings are amazingly congruent with mine. We both don’t care for social media but recognize that they present a good way of discovering new content. What are … Continue reading →

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Taking Math Notes With LaTeX in Emacs

Posted on 2021-11-06 by jcs

Two and a half years ago, I wrote about Gilles Castel’s astounding ability to take math notes at speed using LaTeX and Vim. As someone who once came perilously close to being lapped on a three panel blackboard by a … Continue reading →

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Leaving the Office is Easier Than Returning

Posted on 2021-11-05 by jcs

ABC in Australia has a provocative article that makes the (obvious) case that it’s easier to start remote work than it is to end it. Remote work seems custom made for the tech industry and, indeed, they were among the … Continue reading →

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