Author Archives: jcs

A Handy Tip for Counsel/Swiper Users

Posted on 2018-05-05 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has a very handy tip for Counsel and Swiper users. The idea is that if you want to search for the symbol at point, you need only type Meta+n to use it for the search target. This … Continue reading →

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Ivy, Counsel, and Swiper

Posted on 2018-05-04 by jcs

As regular Irreal denizens know, I’m a huge fan of the Ivy/Counsel/Swiper suite and consider it one of my two most important packages (along with Org mode, of course). If you aren’t already using it, you should stop what you’re … Continue reading →

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Writing LaTeX with Org Mode

Posted on 2018-05-03 by jcs

Writing in \(\mathrm{\LaTeX}\) produces beautiful documents but there’s a pretty steep learning curve. If you’re writing technical documents with lots of mathematics, it’s worth climbing that curve and if you’re an Emacs user, you’ll certainly want to become familiar and … Continue reading →

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Emacs Lisp Bytecode

Posted on 2018-05-02 by jcs

Very few Emacs users—no matter how advanced—ever need to worry about the specifics of the Elisp bytecode, or even, for that matter, that it exists. Still, as guys like Chris Wellons have shown, it can sometimes be useful to have … Continue reading →

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What Cursor Position

Posted on 2018-05-01 by jcs

You may or may not know about what-cursor-position (bound to Ctrl+x =) that displays the current position of the point in the echo area. It’s probably not too useful if you have the row and column displayed in the mode … Continue reading →

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File Name Conventions and Tagging Trees

Posted on 2018-04-30 by jcs

A couple of days ago, Karl Voit gave a really great talk at Grazer Linuxtage 2018. It was entitled The Advantages of File Name Conventions and Tagging, which is pretty much self-explanatory except for the tagging part. The first part … Continue reading →

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Emacs Video: Play Emacs Like an Instrument

Posted on 2018-04-29 by jcs

Alain Lafon gave an excellent talk on using Emacs like a virtuoso, which, happily, was captured on video and is available for everyone to enjoy. The talk isn’t really an introduction to Emacs for n00bs—although it could be used for … Continue reading →

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Documents and Presentations with Org Mode

Posted on 2018-04-28 by jcs

John Goerzen has another post in his coming back to Emacs series. This time he looks at writing documents and preparing presentations with Emacs and Org mode. It’s an elementary discussion but there’s plenty that will be useful to newcomers … Continue reading →

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Org 9.1.12

Posted on 2018-04-27 by jcs

Bastien Guerry tweets that there’s a new version of Org available: #emacs #orgmode 9.1.12 is out. Enjoy! — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) April 26, 2018 If you’re tracking the Org repository, the new version is already there.

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Happy Birthday Irreal

Posted on 2018-04-26 by jcs

Today is the 7th anniversary of Irreal as a WordPress blog1. Irreal started out as a way to make occasional posts about Scheme, Common Lisp, and a couple of other Lispy subjects. It’s evolved into a daily blog that considers … Continue reading →

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