Author Archives: jcs

Reinstall Packages

Posted on 2024-01-23 by jcs

Someone posted a link to an old Bozhidar Batsov post that discusses a nifty little function that automates a simple but annoying manual process. Those of you who use package.el or the use-package macro are probably familiar with the problem. … Continue reading →

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Lab Notebooks

Posted on 2024-01-22 by jcs

I love the idea of lab notebooks. I was trained in the sciences but that training was in Mathematics so the idea of lab notebooks didn’t play much of a role. In the experimental sciences and most engineering disciplines, they … Continue reading →

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Hiding Files From Dired Display

Posted on 2024-01-21 by jcs

Emacs Elements has a short video that explains something I didn’t know. You can tell Dired to not display certain files. My first thought was, “Why would I want that?” After all, if you have a file you probably want … Continue reading →

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Quick Accents

Posted on 2024-01-20 by jcs

As I mentioned previously, I’m learning Spanish so worrying about accented characters has become a way of life. The above post talks about one of Prot’s videos that discusses how to change the input method for Emacs only rather than … Continue reading →

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Emacs 29.2

Posted on 2024-01-19 by jcs

Good news from Eli Zaretskii. In a post to the Emacs Devel list he announced that Emacs 29.2 has been released and is ready for downloading. It’s a maintenance release that fixes some bugs but there are no new features. … Continue reading →

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Zamansky: Learning Elisp #16

Posted on 2024-01-18 by jcs

Mike Zamansky is back after the holidays with another video on learning Elisp. This video starts a new project on using Web APIs in an Elisp application. Specifically, the purpose of the project is to implement an interactive thesaurus that … Continue reading →

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Another C Failure

Posted on 2024-01-17 by jcs

As a sort of coda to yesterday’s post on the errors in the C code running the Toyota acceleration system, here’s another example of a spectacular failure in C code that resulted in huge losses for AT&T, caused loss of … Continue reading →

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A Fatal C Error

Posted on 2024-01-16 by jcs

If you’ve been around Irreal for a while, you know that I spent the majority of my software career writing C code. I love C and don’t have a lot of patience for snark about it from those who have … Continue reading →

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Prot On Mode Line Colors

Posted on 2024-01-15 by jcs

I said that I was over writing about marking the active window and changing mode line colors, but, as they say, never say never. If all you want to do is change the color of the active mode line to … Continue reading →

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Browsing In Emacs

Posted on 2024-01-14 by jcs

Norman Walsh has an interesting post in which he discusses discovering browsing in Emacs. More specifically, he discovered how to follow a link in an Email and have the result displayed in Emacs. He’s using WebKit with Xwidgets so that … Continue reading →

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