Monthly Archives: February 2017

Andreas Gerler has a nice post on how he leverages Emacs to lessen the friction of his workflow. All Emacs users do that, of course. What struck me about Gerler’s post is that he takes a literate devops approach, as … Continue reading →

Things are progressing. The second release candidate for Emacs 25.2 is available. If you like to live on the edge, grab a copy and start testing.

Mike Zamansky has video number 30 up in his Learning Emacs series. It’s the second video in his series about Elfeed, an RSS reader for Emacs. Zamansky says that he generally likes Elfeed but that it’s inconvenient to jump to … Continue reading →

Emacs versus Vim. It’s an always entertaining argument and we all have fun with it from time to time. My own views, as I’ve expressed often on Irreal, are that they’re both really good editors and the editors of choice … Continue reading →

Piotr Kazmierczak has a nice post on how to configure Emacs as a LaTeX editor. That involves AUCTeX, of course, but there’s some nonobvious configuration that can make things a bit better. At one time, everybody not using Word or … Continue reading →

Mike Zamansky has another video in his Using Emacs series up. It is the first of two or three posts on Elfeed. For those who don’t know, Elfeed is an Emacs-based RSS reader written by Christopher Wellons. If you’re striving … Continue reading →

Struggling to get through the midweek hump? Here’s a bit of red meat to get you revved up. Would you bet on a #NASCAR driver who can't drive stick? No? Then fire every developer who doesn't use #Vim or #Emacs. … Continue reading →

Last month, I had three (1, 2, 3) posts on how people are integrating their Google Calendars with Emacs. The common idea was to be able to see some or all of the calendar items in Emacs. Mike Zmansky’s solution … Continue reading →