Category Archives: General

Zamansky: Learning Elisp #9

Posted on 2023-08-31 by jcs

Mike Zamansky is back with the concluding video in his function header project. It’s the 9th video in his Learning Elisp series. This video ties up the loose ends in the previous videos in the project and provides a serviceable … Continue reading →

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Striving For A Mouse Free Workflow

Posted on 2023-08-30 by jcs

As I’ve often suggested—most recently here and here—I try to minimize my use of the mouse as much as I can. Mostly that’s been in the context of Emacs where it’s easy. My desire to avoid the mouse is not … Continue reading →

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Weather Update

Posted on 2023-08-30 by jcs

Idalia did indeed move a bit West resulting in a minimal impact in Tampa. The Irreal bunker didn’t lose power and had only moderate winds. The weather people say it’s possible we could get some more wind so it’s possible, … Continue reading →

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Bell Labs: The Idea Factory

Posted on 2023-08-28 by jcs

Irreal has been on an Emacs binge for the last few weeks so here’s a change of pace. This post is about a Computerphile video featuring Brian Kernighan talking about what it was like to work at Bell Labs. Kernighan, … Continue reading →

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Subword Mode

Posted on 2023-08-27 by jcs

This should probably be a Red Meat Friday post but I really hate camel case. It’s hard to read, hard to type, and looks ugly. Among it’s many other sins, it has made abominations such as subword mode necessary. Over … Continue reading →

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Editing In The Dired Buffer With Occur

Posted on 2023-08-26 by jcs

I ran across this Toot—or whatever Mastodon calls it—in Sacha’s weekly Emacs News: Even though it’s sort of old news at this point, it’s worth calling attention to. The idea is to use occur to narrow down the files in … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Emacs vs. Vi

Posted on 2023-08-25 by jcs

It’s a slow Friday here at Irreal so today’s offering barely qualifies as red meat but you may find it amusing. Someone posted this link to A Comparitive Study of VI and EMACS from the perspective of novice and regular … Continue reading →

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The Downtown Apocalypse

Posted on 2023-08-24 by jcs

If you’ve been around Irreal for a while, you know that I’m fascinated with remote work. I don’t understand why anyone wouldn’t embrace it but I realize that some don’t. Regardless, remote work is dug in and here to stay. … Continue reading →

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Zamansky: Learning Elisp #8

Posted on 2023-08-23 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has published the latest video in his Learning Elisp series, Learning Elisp 8. It’s the second video about building a function to generate function header comments. This video continues the discussion of regular expressions by considering the rx … Continue reading →

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A Tip On Reverting A Buffer

Posted on 2023-08-22 by jcs

James Dyer has a quick tip that may be interest you. The issue is reverting buffers. There are several ways of doing this. One is to simply call find-alternate-file (Ctrl+x Ctrl+v). That’s what I always did but there’s the more … Continue reading →

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