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Org-ibullets

Posted on 2026-10-13 by jcs

The ever-officious minions have staged what they’re calling an intervention. They told me that I’ve milked this illness shtick long enough and that it was time to get back to work. They were unmoved by my protestations that I was … Continue reading →

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How Is This Possible?

Posted on 2026-10-12 by jcs

I’m happy to report that I’m feeling a bit better today. I still tire easily and took a nice long nap this afternoon but I do seem to be getting well. The above is just a little administrivia for those … Continue reading →

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Will The Emacs Keyboard Die?

Posted on 2026-10-11 by jcs

I’m still under the weather: mostly I’ve been sleeping non-stop except for meals and bathroom breaks. That means that I’m still not up to producing a post with the usual Irreal wit and charm1. I did have this post from … Continue reading →

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Two Sad Tales

Posted on 2026-10-10 by jcs

I have two sad tales to relate. The first is that something is wrong with my WordPress installation. You may have noticed that the Irreal banner is small now. WordPress allows you to specify a child theme to take care … Continue reading →

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Still More On Entering Ranges

Posted on 2026-10-09 by jcs

The topic that wouldn’t die. It started with a quick post on Sacha’s solution to a problem posed by David Pape. I thought it was a nice solution but then 0-_-0_ pointed out that abo-abo had already solved this problem … Continue reading →

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More On Number Ranges

Posted on 2026-10-08 by jcs

In a nice coda to yesterday’s post on Sacha Chua’s solution for entering number ranges, 0-_-0_ points out that a solution already exists. That solution is abo-abo’s tiny library. I vaguely remember seeing tiny when abo-abo released it 13 years … Continue reading →

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Inserting Number Ranges As A List

Posted on 2026-10-07 by jcs

The incomparable Sacha Chua has a very nice solution to a problem posed by David Pape: how can we enter a range of numbers as list of distinct numbers in Emacs? Pape’s specific problem was entering the numbers of error … Continue reading →

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The Power Of Plain Text

Posted on 2026-10-06 by jcs

Over at the Dead Parrot BBS, nickb has an excellent post extolling the power of plain text. It’s a notion that’s familiar to all us Emacs users and even more so to Org users. We Org users (or more generally … Continue reading →

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The Future Of Emacs

Posted on 2026-10-05 by jcs

Chris Maiorana asks a provocative question: What’s the future of Emacs? He asks that question in the context of assuming that Emacs will continue to exist for any timeline that matters to us. But how, he asks, will we use … Continue reading →

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Nested Emacs Frames

Posted on 2026-10-04 by jcs

Just a quick offering today on an informative post from Ankit Gadiya about unwanted nested frames in Emacs. The TL;DR is that Gadiya runs Ghostel as his Emacs shell in TUI and demon mode. That works well but he has … Continue reading →

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