Category Archives: General

Email With Notmuch and Astroid

Posted on 2017-05-06 by jcs

If you’ve been hanging out at Irreal for any time at all you know that I’ve recently moved my email to mu/mu4e. There are two aspects to that. The first, and the one that I’ve mostly written about, is that … Continue reading →

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LSP Coming to Emacs?

Posted on 2017-05-05 by jcs

Those of you who follow the Emacs scene will remember that last year there was a big kerfuffle about whether or not GCC should export its AST so that Emacs, for instance, could use it to provide better syntactic and … Continue reading →

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Storing Secrets

Posted on 2017-05-04 by jcs

In my never ending crusade to move as many functions as possible into Emacs, I’ve lately been dealing with functions that require a user name and password. For example, part of the mbsync configuration that downloads my emails requires a … Continue reading →

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Arjen Wiersma’s Emacs Configuration

Posted on 2017-05-03 by jcs

I was trolling through the Emacs tweets when I saw one entitled “Emacs 25.2 Released” with a link to a video. I thought it was going to be a discussion of the new things in Emacs 25.21 but it turned … Continue reading →

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Ogbe’s Literate Emacs Configuration

Posted on 2017-05-01 by jcs

Dennis Ogbe is an EE PhD student at Purdue whom I’ve written about before (1, 2, 3). He’s very good at leveraging Emacs and Org mode in his workflow, both in his studies and his blog. Recently, I saw this … Continue reading →

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SBCL 1.3.17

Posted on 2017-04-30 by jcs

I’ve been a little lax about keeping SBCL up to date but when I saw the announcement for SBCL 1.3.17, I downloaded, compiled, and installed it before I forgot. You can get your copy here. I always build from source … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 33: Projectile and Dumb Jump

Posted on 2017-04-29 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has video number 33 up in his Using Emacs series. This video discusses Projectile and dumb-jump. As most of you probably know, Projectile is Bozhidar Batsov’s project interaction package for Emacs. It provides handy features for using Emacs … Continue reading →

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The Value of Source Code in Emacs

Posted on 2017-04-28 by jcs

Arun Isaac makes a nice point. Most of us support open source and insist on our right to have source code available but we hardly ever look at that source. Except for Emacs. Isaac observes that when the documentation is … Continue reading →

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Installed Emacs 25.2

Posted on 2017-04-27 by jcs

Emacs 25.2 is mostly a bug-fix release and I haven’t had any problems so I didn’t bother installing it as soon as it was released. Still, Irreal likes to be up-to-date on all things Emacs so I finally got around … Continue reading →

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Listing Org Tags

Posted on 2017-04-25 by jcs

Chris over at the cpb83 blog solves a problem that many of us probably have. If you’re an Org mode user, you probably make use of the agenda and organize your data with tags. The problem is that if your … Continue reading →

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