Category Archives: General

Gregory Stein over at Caches to Caches has a really nice tutorial on configuring mu4e and offlineimap to handle your email from within Emacs. That’s an on-going project—delayed mostly by laziness—here at Irreal so I was especially interested in the … Continue reading →

Mike Zamansky has the latest video in his Using Emacs series up. This is the third in his set of videos on Elfeed. This time he considers using macros and hydras with Elfeed. In the second video, Zamansky showed how … Continue reading →

Andreas Gerler has a nice post on how he leverages Emacs to lessen the friction of his workflow. All Emacs users do that, of course. What struck me about Gerler’s post is that he takes a literate devops approach, as … Continue reading →

Things are progressing. The second release candidate for Emacs 25.2 is available. If you like to live on the edge, grab a copy and start testing.

Mike Zamansky has video number 30 up in his Learning Emacs series. It’s the second video in his series about Elfeed, an RSS reader for Emacs. Zamansky says that he generally likes Elfeed but that it’s inconvenient to jump to … Continue reading →

Emacs versus Vim. It’s an always entertaining argument and we all have fun with it from time to time. My own views, as I’ve expressed often on Irreal, are that they’re both really good editors and the editors of choice … Continue reading →

Piotr Kazmierczak has a nice post on how to configure Emacs as a LaTeX editor. That involves AUCTeX, of course, but there’s some nonobvious configuration that can make things a bit better. At one time, everybody not using Word or … Continue reading →

Mike Zamansky has another video in his Using Emacs series up. It is the first of two or three posts on Elfeed. For those who don’t know, Elfeed is an Emacs-based RSS reader written by Christopher Wellons. If you’re striving … Continue reading →