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JTR On Projects In Emacs

Posted on 2025-11-16 by jcs

JTR over at The Art Of Not Asking Why has a post discussing his current scheme for handling projects in Emacs. It’s a post that discusses the problem that many of have with integrating our Org files across all our … Continue reading →

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Snippets With Abbrev Mode

Posted on 2025-11-15 by jcs

I’m a big user of yasnippet. I invoke it several times a day in various contexts. I also use the builtin Emacs abbrev-mode for some simpler text substitutions: “ra” for “→” for instance. Again, I usually use this facility several … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Gategate

Posted on 2025-11-14 by jcs

I don’t know about the rest of you but I’m fed up with the “-gate” meme. Lazy and generally ignorant journalists keep describing every would be scandal—no matter how trivial—as x-gate. The latest example that I’ve seen is the so … Continue reading →

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Short Yes/No Answers

Posted on 2025-11-13 by jcs

Like most longer term Emacs users, one of the first things I did was to get rid of the annoying long-form Yes/No questions that required you to answer “yes” or “no” explicitly. That was easy to do. I simply aliased … Continue reading →

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Finding The File At Point

Posted on 2025-11-12 by jcs

I just discovered a useful trick over at Ruslan’s Tech Blog. It’s about finding the file at point. Ruslan does this a lot. I, on the other hand, hardly every do it but I have gotten used to typing Ctrl+c … Continue reading →

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Unix v4

Posted on 2025-11-11 by jcs

The Unix story is well known to most software nerds but lessor known is the story of Unix v4. To many, it’s just another in the long line of Bell Lab’s Computing Sciences Research Center’s Unix releases but it turns … Continue reading →

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Setting avy-timeout-seconds To A More Reasonable Value

Posted on 2025-11-10 by jcs

As longtime Irreal readers know, I am an Avy fanatic and use it as my principal means of buffer navigation. For a long time, I mostly used avy-goto-word-1 but it can only be used to search for the beginning of … Continue reading →

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Org Tables In Comments And Docstrings

Posted on 2025-11-09 by jcs

If you’ve been using Org-mode for a while, you’re probably familiar with its table editing functionality and may even know that you can use that functionality anywhere in Emacs with orgtbl-mode. For most non-Org applications, of course, those tables will … Continue reading →

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Swift Development in Emacs

Posted on 2025-11-08 by jcs

Here’s some good news for iOS/macOS developers who are also Emacs users. Until now, the only reasonable way to develop for iOS was to use Apple’s Xcode. Xcode is a perfectly good editor and has the necessary integration to make … Continue reading →

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Bending Emacs – Episode 5: Ready Player Mode

Posted on 2025-11-07 by jcs

Álvaro Ramírez is back with the fifth episode of Bending Emacs. This video is about Ready Player Mode, his version of a media player in Emacs. A year ago, Ramírez mostly moved away from streaming his music and went back … Continue reading →

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