Category Archives: General

The pcre2el Package

Posted on 2017-11-26 by jcs

In my post the other day on Mike Zamansky’s Dired video, I meant to mention one of the packages he talked about but I forgot. That package is pcre2el, a package to, among other things, convert Perl compatible regular expressions … Continue reading →

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Mastering Emacs on Sale

Posted on 2017-11-25 by jcs

If you’ve been wanting to get a copy of Mickey Petersen’s excellent Mastering Emacs, here’s your chance: You don't need a new TV – what you DO need is my book on Mastering #Emacs. It's just $20 for the next … Continue reading →

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Using Emacs 38: Dired

Posted on 2017-11-24 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has his latest video up. This time it’s about Dired. Dired is one of the great features of Emacs but many users are only dimly aware of it and don’t make full use of its capabilities. Zamansky’s video … Continue reading →

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Google Apps

Posted on 2017-11-23 by jcs

Regular Irreal readers know that I avoid Google and its applications as much as I can. I use DuckDuckGo for web searches, use Org mode for writing and publishing—and when I must, NeoOffice to interact with documents from the unenlightened—and … Continue reading →

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Emacs for the CEO Redux

Posted on 2017-11-22 by jcs

A couple of years ago, I wrote about Josh Stella’s use of Emacs by a CEO. I’m always interested in how non-technical people use Emacs so I took note when Stella’s piece popped up again. I reread his post and … Continue reading →

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Ivy Occur Customizations

Posted on 2017-11-21 by jcs

I really like ivy-occur and the way you can take a list of Ivy completion candidates and put it in a separate buffer that you can manipulate in any of the usual Emacs ways. The easiest way to use it … Continue reading →

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Keeping A Lab Notebook Webinar

Posted on 2017-11-20 by jcs

I came across a nice Webinar on keeping a laboratory notebook. It’s from the National Institute of Health and is therefore aimed at medical researchers and the type of labs they work in. Still, there are, I think, valuable lessons … Continue reading →

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Beginning Emacs Tutorial Video

Posted on 2017-11-19 by jcs

Derek Banas has posted a nice introduction to Emacs video. It covers roughly the same material as the built-in tutorial with the addition of setting up a Clojure programming environment. Banas covers installing Emacs on both macOS and Windows. One … Continue reading →

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Magit Log for a File

Posted on 2017-11-18 by jcs

Here’s a really nice tip from Wilfred Hughes’ Emacs Command of the Day Twitter feed: M-x magit-log-buffer-file: shows all the commits that affected the current file. Great for understanding the history of some code! pic.twitter.com/psiuHb2cQm — Ⓔ Command of the … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday Smartparens!

Posted on 2017-11-17 by jcs

Fuco1 writes that today smartparens is 5 years old. To celebrate, Fuco1 has released Version 1.11.0. Over the last 5 years, smartparens has become a ubiquitous and very popular package. In the unlikely event that some Irreal reader is not … Continue reading →

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