Category Archives: General

As longtime Irreal readers know, I am an Avy fanatic and use it as my principal means of buffer navigation. For a long time, I mostly used avy-goto-word-1 but it can only be used to search for the beginning of … Continue reading →

If you’ve been using Org-mode for a while, you’re probably familiar with its table editing functionality and may even know that you can use that functionality anywhere in Emacs with orgtbl-mode. For most non-Org applications, of course, those tables will … Continue reading →

Álvaro Ramírez is back with the fifth episode of Bending Emacs. This video is about Ready Player Mode, his version of a media player in Emacs. A year ago, Ramírez mostly moved away from streaming his music and went back … Continue reading →

Serendipitously, my old pal Watts Martin posted his thoughts on everything in Emacs at about the same time that I did. Martin says that before he got into Emacs, he considered this “profoundly weird” but now he’s beginning to see … Continue reading →

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Álvaro Ramírez’s time-zones package. It’s a package that expands on the built in world clock function by allowing cities to be added and deleted on the fly and by allowing the target … Continue reading →

As most of you know, I’m a true believer in the idea of “living in Emacs”. I’ve imported every task possible into Emacs to the point where virtually all my tube time is spend either in Emacs or my browser. … Continue reading →