Author Archives: jcs

James Dyer is continuing his quest to remove as many third party packages as possible from his configuration. This time he’s replacing Magit with vc-mode. As I’ve said before, I don’t understand this urge to replace more or less proven … Continue reading →

Stefan Kangas writes that the Emacs 30.1 release candidate 1 is available for download. This is one of, possibly the last, steps before the release of Emacs 30.1. There’s also a Windows binary available. Kangas says that if there are … Continue reading →

Lars Ingebrigtsen has an interesting post that discusses writing WordPress blog posts in HTML. Why would you want to do that? Ingebrigtsen’s answer is that the alternatives are harder to use. In particular he says that markup languages are as … Continue reading →

I have family visiting so this is another short post. Charles Choi has an interesting tip for Emacs emoji users on macOS. I rarely use emojis anywhere but in texts so I wasn’t aware of Emacs facilities for choosing emojis. … Continue reading →

Just a quick post about a short note from Marcin Borkowski (mbork) concerning searching for the thing at point. Despite using Emacs for over 18 years I didn’t know about isearch-forward-thing-at-point. As mbork says, it does just what it says. … Continue reading →

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 →