Author Archives: jcs

Writing With Doom

Posted on 2025-01-04 by jcs

Recently, some one posted a link to this post about using Emacs for writing. It was written by Mediapthatic in 2022 but still very useful and up to date. It takes the point of view of a book writer but … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Where Should Your Configuration Live?

Posted on 2025-01-03 by jcs

When I started using Emacs, just about everybody stored their configuration in ~/.emacs. Then it seemed as if folks were using ~/.emacs.d/init.el instead. For a long time when I was writing about Emacs configurations I would write something along the … Continue reading →

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Deleting Extraneous Spaces In Emacs

Posted on 2025-01-02 by jcs

Charles Choi has a nice post that reminded me about something I know but never take advantage of: the Emacs cycle-spacing command. As Choi points out, we often find there are additional spaces in our text that we want to … Continue reading →

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Happy New Years

Posted on 2025-01-01 by jcs

It’s New Year’s Eve and I’m trying to put together a post for tomorrow. For reasons that I’m sure have nothing to do with Champagne, I’m having a bit of difficulty so I’ll just wish all of you a Happy … Continue reading →

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Emacs Only Static Blog Site

Posted on 2024-12-31 by jcs

Every Irreal reader who’s paying even a little attention knows that this site is WordPress based. It’s been that way since 2011, and I’m pretty satisfied with it as a blogging platform. Still, it would be nice to have a … Continue reading →

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Crossword Construction

Posted on 2024-12-30 by jcs

I’ve been doing crosswords (American style) for most of my life but one thing I’ve never understood is how one goes about constructing them. It really is a hard problem when you think about it. Forget about clues and all … Continue reading →

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Switching Bewteen HTML and Text In Mu4e

Posted on 2024-12-29 by jcs

Anyone who’s been reading Irreal for a while knows that I’m a huge fan of Mu/Mu4e for dealing with my email. It has just the right features for my preferred workflow. That includes it’s robust search capabilities that allow me … Continue reading →

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PSA: The GPG/Emacs Interaction Bug Is Fixed

Posted on 2024-12-28 by jcs

I’m probably the last person on earth to know this but the longstanding bug between GPG and Emacs where Emacs could not open a GPG encrypted file has been fixed. Indeed, it was fixed in GPG 2.4.4 back in January. … Continue reading →

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An Emacs IDE For Python

Posted on 2024-12-27 by jcs

I’m not much of an IDE fan but many (most?) people are and want, in particular, to have some LSP integration for their favorite language. Lots of folks are using Python these days either as a quick-and-dirty scripting language or … Continue reading →

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From The Too Much Time On Their Hands Department: Pink Floyd Division

Posted on 2024-12-26 by jcs

Okay, okay. I wouldn’t be writing about this if it didn’t involve Pink Floyd but it does so here we are. Matthias over at The Corelatus Blog decided, at the request of a friend, to decode the phone system signaling … Continue reading →

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