Category Archives: General

Handling Comments When Joining Lines

Posted on 2024-03-04 by jcs

Tony Zorman has an interesting post on joining lines in the presence of comments. If you’re like me, your first reaction is apt to be, “why should I care about this?” After a second’s thought, though, I realized that joining … Continue reading →

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Running Magit In Full Screen Redux

Posted on 2024-03-03 by jcs

Life goes on and things change. Over 10 years ago, I wrote about a hack to run Magit in full screen mode. The hack—apparently from Magnar Sveen originally—was pretty simple. Here it is: (eval-after-load ‘magit ‘(progn (defadvice magit-status (around magit-fullscreen … Continue reading →

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Buffer Specific Commands

Posted on 2024-03-02 by jcs

Remember the other day when I said I almost always learn something new from Bozhidar Batsov’s posts? I just ran across another example. Batsov informs us that as of Emacs 29, there’s a new command called execute-extended-command-for-buffer (bound to Meta+X) … Continue reading →

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Custom Functions In Org Tables

Posted on 2024-03-01 by jcs

Most Org users know that there are built in functions that can do things like sum some or all of the entries in a row or column of a table. The set of functions is actually much richer than simply … Continue reading →

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Yeetube

Posted on 2024-02-29 by jcs

As I’ve written many times before, the Irreal bunker strives to be Google free. We mainly succeed in that endeavor with the single exception of YouTube. It’s far and away the best in class service of its type and more … Continue reading →

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A Bit More On The Silliest Emacs Meme

Posted on 2024-02-28 by jcs

Last Friday, I offered up a Red Meat Friday post that discussed the silly but depressingly widely held idea that Emacs is dying. As I said in that post, this is not an idea that’s held by anyone who actually … Continue reading →

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The Roots of Unix

Posted on 2024-02-27 by jcs

While researching for my post The History of C Compilers, I came across another post from Diego Crespo that was sort of along the same lines. This one, Tracing the Lines: From the Telephone to Unix, follows the early history … Continue reading →

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Describe Symbol Redux

Posted on 2024-02-26 by jcs

I just came across this post from Bozhidar Batsov about describe-symbol. It’s a help command, bound to Ctrl+h o, that combines the results of describe-function and describe-variable. The putative advantage of this (newish) command is that a single key shortcut … Continue reading →

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Isearch Transient Menu Now On Melpa

Posted on 2024-02-25 by jcs

Last year, I wrote about Charles Choi’s transient menu for isearch. The idea is that while widely used, isearch is a very complicated function with many options. Most Emacs users don’t know all those options and almost none of them … Continue reading →

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The init-dir Option

Posted on 2024-02-24 by jcs

Bozhidar Batsov over at Emacs Redux has a short post on the new(ish) Emacs command line option, init-dir. It does just what it sounds like: it allows you to specify where to find the init.el file and other configuration information. … Continue reading →

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