Author Archives: jcs

Installed Emacs 25.2

Posted on 2017-04-27 by jcs

Emacs 25.2 is mostly a bug-fix release and I haven’t had any problems so I didn’t bother installing it as soon as it was released. Still, Irreal likes to be up-to-date on all things Emacs so I finally got around … Continue reading →

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Irreal Is 6

Posted on 2017-04-26 by jcs

Today Irreal, in its current incarnation, is six years old. For the last 5 years I’ve posted pretty much everyday. In its original incarnation as a Blogger blog, I had in mind that Irreal would be mostly about Scheme and … Continue reading →

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Listing Org Tags

Posted on 2017-04-25 by jcs

Chris over at the cpb83 blog solves a problem that many of us probably have. If you’re an Org mode user, you probably make use of the agenda and organize your data with tags. The problem is that if your … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Emacs, Org-mode | 8 Comments

A Synchronized Shopping List for Linux/Android

Posted on 2017-04-24 by jcs

Karl Voit has an interesting post about a synchronized shopping list for him and his girlfriend. He had a promising solution leveraging Wunderlist but after a week of working on it, he discovered that Wunderlist had been acquired by Microsoft … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Emacs, Org-mode | 2 Comments

A Warning Ignored

Posted on 2017-04-23 by jcs

I tried to warn Grant but he wouldn’t listen1. Now I’m running around with my hair on fire yelling at a cloud. Footnotes: 1 Actually, it’s an old post predating my warning but someone just posted a link to it … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Humor, Scheme | 1 Comment

Emacs 25.2 Has Been Released

Posted on 2017-04-22 by jcs

The latest release of Emacs, Version 25.2, has been released. Despite the title on the announcement at the link, it really is 25.2 not 25.1.

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Paredit Video

Posted on 2017-04-21 by jcs

If you’re working in a Lisp type language, you really want to be using paredit (or possibly smartparens). Smartparens can be used for any language or even plain text so many people prefer it. Some use both saving paredit for … Continue reading →

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Using Babel Video

Posted on 2017-04-20 by jcs

Rainer Köenig has a new video in his OrgMode tutorial series. This time he takes a brief look at using Babel in Org files. The video is a bit limited because, as Köenig admits, he doesn’t have very many use … Continue reading →

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Elfeed

Posted on 2017-04-19 by jcs

Those of you who have been paying attention know that I’ve been threatening to complete my move to (almost) all-things-in-Emacs by switching to elfeed for my RSS feeds. It doesn’t really have a good iOS solution but it is easy … Continue reading →

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An Easy Way to Download Your Email in Maildir Format

Posted on 2017-04-18 by jcs

As you all know, I spent considerable time configuring mbsync to download my email in Maildir format so that I could try out mu4e and move one more function into Emacs. It wasn’t, by far, the hardest thing I’ve ever … Continue reading →