Category Archives: General

Elisp One Sexp At A Time

Posted on 2023-09-05 by jcs

Some of the Irreal posts that make me the happiest are those that reveal a single tip that helps readers improve their workflow. Tony Aldon has an ongoing video project that presents a single piece of Elisp that performs some … Continue reading →

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Task Management With Org Agenda

Posted on 2023-09-04 by jcs

Denis Kyashif has a nice post on how he uses the Org mode agenda to handle his task management. He has two main requirements: It should be easy to add tasks to his task list. It should be easy to … Continue reading →

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Compiler Humor

Posted on 2023-09-03 by jcs

Apropos of Nothing, as Cheryl Crow once put it, here’s something you don’t see very often: compiler humor. From another era when engineers were still allowed to inject whimsy into software, Tony Cunningham offers us a selection of error messages … Continue reading →

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Org Agenda Tasks

Posted on 2023-09-02 by jcs

Charles Choi has published an interesting post on defining org agenda tasks. All Org users, I’m sure, are familiar with the Org Agenda that lists the Org headlines in each of the files in org-agenda-files and provides a link to … Continue reading →

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2-Column Editing

Posted on 2023-09-01 by jcs

Emacs Elements has an interesting video on something I didn’t really know about: 2-Column editing. I say “really know about” because I always assumed it was just another name for follow mode. But, of course, it’s an entirely different thing. … Continue reading →

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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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