Category Archives: General

If you’ve been around Irreal for as little as a year and a half, you know that my most important and most used iOS app is Journelly. I use it as my memo book to record my daily activities and … Continue reading →

Randy Ridenour has taken another step in the journey so many of are on: moving everything inside Emacs. Regular Irreal readers will recall that Ridenour is a Philosophy professor so he doesn’t have much need for high powered math tools … Continue reading →

Three years ago, I wrote about marking the active window (update here ) so that it’s easy to pick it out from the other, inactive windows. I did that by making the mode line of the active window a distinct … Continue reading →

Over at the MIT Technology Review there’s a nice article on Emacs turning 50 this year. It gives a short history of Emacs starting from its TECO days. Most of that history is pretty well known to seasoned Emacs users … Continue reading →

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has an interesting post on Unicode punctuation in Emacs. His post is mainly concerned with the vagaries of dealing with English and Polish punctuation in the same document but a lot of the heavy lifting is accomplished … Continue reading →

Today I learned a new Emacs trick from Emacs Dwelling. Well, new to me. It turns out it’s been in Emacs since 28.1 so for about four and a half years. Here’s the problem. When you call isearch it starts … Continue reading →