Category Archives: General

Asking For Confirmation

Posted on 2024-08-13 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has a really great post about arranging for certain commands to prompt for verification before executing. Usually, those prompts are simply annoying but sometimes they’re actually useful. For example, you can arrange for Emacs to ask you … Continue reading →

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The Beauty OF Vanilla Emacs

Posted on 2024-08-12 by jcs

As all Emacers know, there are several premade Emacs configurations available that allow a n00b to start using Emacs with a complete system that includes practically every package that they could need. One often sees new Emacs users who started … Continue reading →

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32TB

Posted on 2024-08-11 by jcs

A long (long) time ago when I was first adding hard drives to my systems—yes, there was a time when computers didn’t come with hard drives—the only choices available to “normal people” were 20MB or 60MB drives. That was the … Continue reading →

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Magit 4.0

Posted on 2024-08-10 by jcs

Jonas Bernoulli (Tarsius_) has just announced the release of Magit 4.0. The release, as he says, has been a long time coming: it’s been about 3 years since the last release. It’s great to hear about the new release and … Continue reading →

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Tagging Tasks

Posted on 2024-08-09 by jcs

David Wilson over at System Crafters has an interesting video that explains his system for using tags on his Org tasks. The nice thing about his method is that it’s easy to implement. The hardest part is choosing a list … Continue reading →

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An Update To Casual Calc

Posted on 2024-08-08 by jcs

Charles Choi has made another update to Casual Calc. This time it’s to provide a more contextual workflow. The idea is that that the Casual Calc menus should reflect the current context. I haven’t yet had a chance to play … Continue reading →

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What Is Your Favorite Emacs Microfeature

Posted on 2024-08-07 by jcs

All of us long term Emacs users have our favorite Emacs features. Sometimes it’s something big. For me that would be Org or Ivy/Counsel/Swiper. Other’s would choose Magit, Dired, Elfeed, or Mu4e. In a sense, those are the easy choices. … Continue reading →

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What Does It Mean For Emacs To Be A Lisp Machine

Posted on 2024-08-06 by jcs

Here on Irreal, I often claim that Emacs is best thought of as a light weight Lisp Machine. One of the problems of being a gray beard is that it’s easy to forget that not everyone has your frame of … Continue reading →

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Suggestions For A Slow Emacs

Posted on 2024-08-05 by jcs

It seems de rigueur to complain about Emacs being slow on Windows or even, according to some, on every OS. It’s easy to throw out such aspersions but a lot harder to offer solutions. RobThorpe over at the Emacs subreddit … Continue reading →

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Jumping To The Completions Buffer

Posted on 2024-08-04 by jcs

This is a sort of public service announcement. As many of you know, I consider Ivy/Counsel/Swiper to be one of my most valuable packages. It’s a behind the scenes force in almost everything I do in Emacs. If it disappeared, … Continue reading →

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