Category Archives: General

James Dyer has announced a new package called Simply Annotate. It is, as the name suggests, a package to make annotations to a file with the feature that the original file is not modified. There are, of course, as Dyer … Continue reading →

Over at the Emacs subreddit, SecretTraining4082 asks long term vanilla Emacs users how their hands are holding up. You’d be forgiven if you think the answer is “terrible”. After all, it’s received wisdom that Emacs’ default key bindings are particularly … Continue reading →

After yesterdays post about Charles Choi’s second take on Eshell, I discovered that Choi’s post was part of a collection by Christian Tietze on a second take on various Emacs topics. Tietze himself had a post on Emacs on Second … Continue reading →

If you’re a regular Irreal reader, you’ll be familiar with Charles Choi. He often has useful takes on Emacs matters and, of course, he’s the author of the excellent Casual Suite that helps you use all the arcane features of … Continue reading →

There are many, many posts on Irreal about the journey that people make from the hinterlands to Emacs. This post is about the journey from uber-distributions like Spacemacs and Doom to plain old vanilla Emacs. Irreal doesn’t hold any position, … Continue reading →

Flandrew likes Org mode but he wanted to improve his workflow with it a bit. So he wrote some code that he called Fold and Focus—Focused Navigation. The idea was that when in Org mode a single key would move … Continue reading →

Today (Saturday) appears to be a slow day on the technical Internet or perhaps everyone is hiding out from the AI apocalypse. Whatever the reason, I can’t find anything to write about that’s up to the refined standards of Irreal … Continue reading →

Because I know you guys never stop jonesing for another episode of the endless debate on Emacs startup time, here’s yet another post to feed your addiction. Over at the Emacs subreddit, prothtuahel complains that Emacs is taking 3 seconds … Continue reading →

Over at the Emacs subreddit, floofcode asks those who moved from Vim to Emacs to tell their stories. On the one hand, it’s pretty much what you’d expect. The majority of the commenters said it was either Org mode or … Continue reading →