Category Archives: General

Zamansky: Learning Elisp #16

Posted on 2024-01-18 by jcs

Mike Zamansky is back after the holidays with another video on learning Elisp. This video starts a new project on using Web APIs in an Elisp application. Specifically, the purpose of the project is to implement an interactive thesaurus that … Continue reading →

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Another C Failure

Posted on 2024-01-17 by jcs

As a sort of coda to yesterday’s post on the errors in the C code running the Toyota acceleration system, here’s another example of a spectacular failure in C code that resulted in huge losses for AT&T, caused loss of … Continue reading →

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A Fatal C Error

Posted on 2024-01-16 by jcs

If you’ve been around Irreal for a while, you know that I spent the majority of my software career writing C code. I love C and don’t have a lot of patience for snark about it from those who have … Continue reading →

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Prot On Mode Line Colors

Posted on 2024-01-15 by jcs

I said that I was over writing about marking the active window and changing mode line colors, but, as they say, never say never. If all you want to do is change the color of the active mode line to … Continue reading →

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Browsing In Emacs

Posted on 2024-01-14 by jcs

Norman Walsh has an interesting post in which he discusses discovering browsing in Emacs. More specifically, he discovered how to follow a link in an Email and have the result displayed in Emacs. He’s using WebKit with Xwidgets so that … Continue reading →

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Highlighting Regular Expressions

Posted on 2024-01-13 by jcs

Charles Choi has another Emacs nugget: how to (persistently) highlight isearch targets. The idea is that you may have a lot of hits for your search and would like to keep them highlighted so that you can examine them in … Continue reading →

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A Blast From The Past: Emacs For The CEO

Posted on 2024-01-12 by jcs

Back in 2015, I wrote about Josh Stella’s wonderful article on A CEO’s Guide to Emacs. Someone just posted a link to Stella’s post so I took the opportunity to reread it. It seems just as apropos now as it … Continue reading →

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Query Replace Regexp

Posted on 2024-01-11 by jcs

Susam Pal has a nice reminder on using query-replace-regexp. Most Emacs users know about the command and its binding Ctrl+Meta+% but Pal’s post mentions some less known features that can be very useful. The first—and simplest—is using \& in the … Continue reading →

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Boeing Again

Posted on 2024-01-10 by jcs

I was reading this PBS story on the recent Alaskan Airlines incident in which a door panel blew off in midair and it tickled a distant memory of a post I wrote about Boeing before. A simple search of Irreal … Continue reading →

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Removing Diacritics From A String

Posted on 2024-01-09 by jcs

Jeremy Friesen has another interesting post. This time it’s about removing diacritics from a string. His problem is that he uses the same string for the title of a post as well as the name of the file containing the … Continue reading →

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