Category Archives: General

JTR over at The Art Of Not Asking Why has a post that explores why Emacs is the right thing. He begins with a story of a Porche owner who often has to drive in countries that require cars to … Continue reading →

Ediff is a thing of beauty. It provides a way of not only seeing the difference between two files but for merging various differences into a third combined file. It’s very powerful and flexible. The problem is that using it … Continue reading →

Christian Tietze has a nice post on sharpening the Emacs saw as part of this month’s Emacs Carnival on Maintenance. Like many of us, Tietze found that he was moving more and more of his work into Emacs. Finally, he … Continue reading →

Courtesy of a post from the_cecep over at the Emacs subreddit, I just discovered a builtin gem I didn’t know about. The post is about the delete-pair function. The idea is that you have some text surrounded by a pair … Continue reading →

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about piping Eshell output to a buffer. It’s a cute trick but it only works in Eshell. It turns out you can do better. iLemming has a video on piping in and out … Continue reading →

It’s a lazy Sunday and there’s nothing much going on in the Internet to interest Irreal or its readers so I’m offering you this little nugget that popped up this morning. Oil.el is a tiny package that brings the functionality … Continue reading →

Álvaro Ramírez has a new video up. This one, Bending Emacs 4, demonstrates several ways of batch renaming files. The secret sauce in most of these methods is the ability of the Dired buffer to become writable and have the … Continue reading →