Category Archives: General

Elisp Abstraction

Posted on 2025-02-11 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, AbstProcDo proposes an interesting idea: some Elisp constructs are very intuitive and natural compared to other languages. He uses the example of dolist to process a list versus the Python way. (dolist (item ‘(1 2 … Continue reading →

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Projectile Caching Improvements

Posted on 2025-02-10 by jcs

Bozhidar Batsov, the developer of projectile, has announced some updates to its caching behavior. The idea is that a projects files are cached so that they don’t have to be reindexed every time your bring up a project. Projectile has … Continue reading →

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Exporting To Word In The Real World

Posted on 2025-02-09 by jcs

As you all know, I’m a huge fan of Org mode and use it for virtually all the writing I do. One of the powers of Org is that you can export it to many different formats. One of those … Continue reading →

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Unloading Emacs Themes

Posted on 2025-02-08 by jcs

Here at the Irreal bunker, we’re stodgy, like things the way they are, and are not inclined to change things willy-nilly. As far as Emacs is concerned, that manifests itself in the eschewing of themes. The bunker doesn’t really have … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Parenthesis In Lisp

Posted on 2025-02-07 by jcs

I love Lisp. I think it’s the perfect language for a very wide variety of problems, that it’s powerful, easy to learn, and that it provides the perfect environment for what I call exploratory programming. There are some downsides. One … Continue reading →

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Elisp To Python Cheatsheat

Posted on 2025-02-06 by jcs

Irreal has often commented on the work of Charles Choi, most recently on his Casual App Suite. Choi has just published a nice cheatsheet for Python programmers who want to write in Elisp. The idea is to compare the various … Continue reading →

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Magit 4.3.0

Posted on 2025-02-05 by jcs

Tarsius (Jonas Bernoulli) has just announced that he’s released Magit 4.3.0. Six months ago, he promised to release a new version every month and this is the sixth such release. Almost everyone loves Magit—there are a few vc holdouts—and considers … Continue reading →

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Emacs Debugging Commands

Posted on 2025-02-04 by jcs

Over at Emacs Redux, Bozhidar Batsov has a nice post on Emacs debugging commands. It’s not the first time that I’ve written about this sort of thing (see here, for instance) but unless you’re actively developing in Elisp, you probably … Continue reading →

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Doing It Yourself

Posted on 2025-02-03 by jcs

James Dyer has a short post on replacing some embark functionality with his own code. He does a nice job and you can check his post for the details but his post again raises the issue of why some users … Continue reading →

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Coming Home To Emacs

Posted on 2025-02-02 by jcs

Joshua Blais has a nice video that recounts an apostate’s repentance. Blais was an Emacs user but moved to Neovim. Users always seem to be switching back and forth between Emacs and Vim. They are, after all, the only two … Continue reading →

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