Category Archives: General

Vivek Haldar published a list of his most popular posts of 2012 and one that I particularly liked was My Setup. In that post, I found this quote about editors exactly right. Editors This is where the religious wars usually … Continue reading →

As I mentioned in my winner-mode post, I recently configured Emacs to start with a frame-width of 162 columns. I’ve also added a call to split-window-right in my init.el to get the two columns of windows that I prefer. This … Continue reading →

Many Emacs users like CUA mode. That makes a certain amount of sense because then copy/cut/paste work in Emacs the same way it does in almost every other application. I, however, am in the camp of the traditionalists and prefer … Continue reading →

In my Two From Phil post I mentioned that Phil had urged me to try winner-mode and that I was going to give it a try. For those who came in late, winner-mode captures the current window configuration and allows … Continue reading →

Regular reader and commenter Phil has made a couple of good observations in the comments of recent posts that I think are worth bringing to everyone’s attention. Since not everyone follows the comments, I decided to mention them in a … Continue reading →

As regular Irreal readers know, I prepare all my blog posts with org2blog. One of the nice features of that is that any code I include in a post is automatically fontified in a language appropriate way. Recently, both Xah … Continue reading →

In A Nice Emacs Trick, I wrote about how you can enter query-replace or query-replace-regexp directly from isearch and use the isearch search string as the FROM parameter to query-replace or query-replace-regexp. It turns out that there’s a lot more … Continue reading →

Over at Zmalltalker, Marius Mårnes Mathiesen has a very nice post on the mu4e email app for Emacs. Mathiesen, who’s used many different email programs says that mu4e is the first one that he’s ever been happy with. To the … Continue reading →