Author Archives: jcs

Rajasegar Chandran has an interesting and useful post on how to extract text from an Emacs buffer. You wouldn’t think there’s a lot to know but there are at least two wrinkles. First you might not want the whole buffer … Continue reading →

Eric MacAdie is probably familiar to many Irreal readers from his reports on the EmacsATX meetings. His latest post recounts his history with Emacs and includes a list of the Emacs commands that he got by with for most of … Continue reading →

I thought I was finished writing about marking the active Emacs window so that it stands out. It all started with my post on James Dyer’s method of placing a red line on the left hand fringe. I liked his … Continue reading →

Mario Jason Braganza over at Janusworx has what amounts to a love letter to Emacs. Three and a half years ago, he started using Emacs. His post is a list of “If you had told me then”. Some of them, … Continue reading →

Just the other day I wrote about James Dyer’s solution for marking the active window so that it’s immediately obvious which window has focus. In that post, I said that although Dyer’s solution was a good one, I thought that … Continue reading →

Here at Irreal, the minions and I are still decompressing from Christmas so this will be another short post. Troy Fletcher has a silly and lighthearted video on Emacs not being a text editor. The TL;DR is that Emacs is … Continue reading →

I use the default mode line and am mostly happy with it except that the difference between the mode line of the active window and the other windows can be hard to discern. I know I could make myself a … Continue reading →

I’m writing this on Christmas day so the festivities mean that I don’t have as much time as usual available for writing this post. Happily, I came across this post by Norman Walsh in which he mentions a fact that … Continue reading →