Author Archives: jcs

Defining Eshell Commands

Posted on 2024-04-20 by jcs

It’s a commonplace in the Emacs community that you never stop learning Emacs. No matter how long you’ve been using it, there’s always something new to discover. The truth of that maxim was brought home to me today when I … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: A Shot Across The Bow

Posted on 2024-04-19 by jcs

Virtually every regular Irreal reader knows that I’m not a Google fan. Along with Meta, they’ve done everything they can to hijack the free and open Web and turn it into a proprietary money machine. I can’t remember taking their … Continue reading →

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Beautifying Org Mode

Posted on 2024-04-18 by jcs

As you all know, I’m not much for editor bling even though I care immensely what my finished text looks like. Still, I did take to heart Charles Choi’s recommendation to use proportional fonts for prose. The idea is that … Continue reading →

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An Interview With Daniel Semyonov

Posted on 2024-04-17 by jcs

Those of you who have been around for a while will remember Sacha Chua’s video interviews with various Emacs luminaries. Those were before the birth of her daughter and as any parent will tell you, young children can gobble up … Continue reading →

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Emacs Nerd Porn

Posted on 2024-04-16 by jcs

For all you Emacs nerds out there here’s a bit of porn. It’s almost like those joke pictures you see of Emacs setups but this one appears to be real. As much as I like the idea of this environment, … Continue reading →

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A Comparison Of Markdown Editors

Posted on 2024-04-15 by jcs

Although I find it hard to believe, the Minions assure me that there are still people who prefer writing in Markdown rather than Org-mode. I don’t want to relitigate that issue here. If you’re interested in why no right thinking … Continue reading →

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Sparse Trees

Posted on 2024-04-14 by jcs

Emacs Elements has a short video on sparse trees. The TL;DR is that sparse trees give you a method of filtering an Org file to show only the information that you’re interested in. The information can be random text, a … Continue reading →

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Left Hand Quick Commands

Posted on 2024-04-13 by jcs

Emacs elements has another interesting video, this time on some commands that he’s rebound for quick invocation. Those commands are (roughly): kill-buffer set-mark-command (Push mark) set-mark-command (Pop mark) exchange-point-and-mark jump-out-of-pair (A custom command) He begins the video with some praise … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: That’s Not Vim…

Posted on 2024-04-12 by jcs

Just a quickie today but it’s really, really red meat. If you’re an Emacs partisan, it will give you a reason to chuckle all day. If you worship at the Church of Vim, you’ll be less amused. As I’ve said … Continue reading →

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Boeing: The Past Comes Due

Posted on 2024-04-11 by jcs

I was going to fold this into my last post on Boeing but as I considered how to add it to that post, I realized that I had too much to say. As I noted in the last post, I’ve … Continue reading →

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