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Marking a Word

Posted on 2017-08-23 by jcs

Today I learned something new. Or, rather, I got hit in the head with a cluebat. Peter Hwang asked how he could mark the word at point. Manuel Uberti answered that he usually uses Ctrl+Meta+SPC, which I always think of … Continue reading →

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Ivy Initial Input String

Posted on 2017-08-22 by jcs

If you’re an Ivy user—and you should be—you’ve probably noticed that sometimes the Ivy prompt will have an initial “^” so that the search will be anchored at the beginning of line. This happens depending on the command that called … Continue reading →

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Setting Up a Lisp Development Environment

Posted on 2017-08-21 by jcs

For a language as old as Lisp, there are a surprising number of queries asking how to set up a Lisp environment. If you’re a Lisper, your answer to this is probably Emacs/Slime/Quicklisp and one of the Lisp systems such … Continue reading →

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Emacs Lisp Development Tools

Posted on 2017-08-20 by jcs

I just stumbled across a video of John Wiegley’s talk at the 2013 Emacs Lisp Development Conference on Elisp development tools. Wiegley covers some of the tools he uses in his own development. Many of those tools will be familiar … Continue reading →

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An Elisp Introduction

Posted on 2017-08-19 by jcs

A couple of years ago, I wrote about Aaron Bieber’s talk to the Boston Vim Meetup on why and how he moved from Vim to Emacs. It was a great talk and worth watching if you haven’t already (especially if … Continue reading →

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Apple’s Open Office

Posted on 2017-08-18 by jcs

Managers and bean counters tell themselves all sorts of pretty lies to justify open office plans. It will increase collaboration, they say. Employees will know what the rest of the team is doing and be better able to solve problems, … Continue reading →

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A Little Red Meat for Emacsers

Posted on 2017-08-17 by jcs

I don’t have anything interesting to say today so here’s a little red meat for Irreal’s Emacs lovers: Functional programmers who #Lisp need #Emacs and #ParEdit.Non-functional programmers want them.Dysfunctional programmers dislike them. :) — amen zwa ကျော်ဇွာ (@AmenZwa) August 17, … Continue reading →

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A Personal Emacs Package Repo

Posted on 2017-08-16 by jcs

As longtime Irreal readers know, I don’t worry about my init.el very much. Rather than organize my configuration into separate, function-specific files like my more organized colleagues, I just throw everything into a single init.el. I keep thinking I should … Continue reading →

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Note Taking with Org Mode

Posted on 2017-08-15 by jcs

Heikki Lehväslaiho has a nice series of 4 blog posts on how he takes notes with Org mode. He lists the first three posts in each entry but not the fourth; it’s here. The last two posts are particularly interesting. … Continue reading →

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WeChat

Posted on 2017-08-14 by jcs

Those of you who been following Irreal lately know of my fascination with the WeChat mobile app and its use in China where it serves as a wallet and messaging service. Chinese users pay for practically everything with it, use … Continue reading →

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