Author Archives: jcs

Over at the reddit Emacs subreddit Tribaal asks for advice on learning Emacs and, in particular, solicits “ahhhhh! moments” from Emacs veterans. The ensuing discussion is quite interesting and, at least at the time I read it, free of trolls … Continue reading →

Over at Wisdom and Wonder, Grant tells us how to move forward several spaces in the minibuffer. That’s just 【Ctrl+u 1 0 0 Ctrl+f】, of course but Fuco (who wowed us by doing the last VimGolf in Emacs challenge in … Continue reading →

A recurring theme here at Irreal is the notion of Emacs as a Lisp Machine (see here and here, for example) and the advantages that this point of view provides. Now Martin Fowler explores this idea a little more with … Continue reading →

Xah Lee has a helpful post on dealing with tabs, whitespace, and indentation. Nothing in the post qualifies as advanced and most of you will be familiar with the material but I remember being confused about tabs and indentation when … Continue reading →

Here’s an interesting VimGolf challenge. As they say in the challenge, it’s a simple problem but they’re looking for interesting solutions. The challenge is to turn this app.config[‘CHALLENGE_FOLDER’] = SOLUTIONS_FOLDER app.config[‘SOLUTIONS_FOLDER’] = CHALLENGE_FOLDER into this app.config[‘CHALLENGE_FOLDER’] = CHALLENGE_FOLDER app.config[‘SOLUTIONS_FOLDER’] = … Continue reading →