Author Archives: jcs

Everyday I see several articles from—usually—younger developers opining that Emacs is too old-fashioned, non-intuitive, and, really, just too hard to bother learning. And, it doesn’t look nice like VS Code and other modern editors. Okay, they’re young and don’t know … Continue reading →

Continuing with our “Emacs for all things” theme of the last couple of days, here’s another post that speaks to how Emacs can be used for many things and how seemingly difficult or even impossible tasks can be done by … Continue reading →

One of the odd things about writing Irreal is that I never know which posts will be popular or at least provoke some engagement. Often, posts that I think are really interesting receive no comments and posts that I suspect … Continue reading →

Over at The Art Of Not Asking Why, JTR has some nice things to say about Irreal but that’s not what I want to talk about. Rather, I like to address the point of his post, which is how difficult … Continue reading →

Bozhidar Batsov, the developer of projectile, has announced some updates to its caching behavior. The idea is that a projects files are cached so that they don’t have to be reindexed every time your bring up a project. Projectile has … Continue reading →

As you all know, I’m a huge fan of Org mode and use it for virtually all the writing I do. One of the powers of Org is that you can export it to many different formats. One of those … Continue reading →

Here at the Irreal bunker, we’re stodgy, like things the way they are, and are not inclined to change things willy-nilly. As far as Emacs is concerned, that manifests itself in the eschewing of themes. The bunker doesn’t really have … Continue reading →