Monthly Archives: February 2018

Working with Gists in Emacs

Posted on 2018-02-08 by jcs

Bill Ward has a handy post on how to manage and create Gists with Emacs. It mostly involves installing gist.el and its dependencies. After the installation, you can easily edit existing Gists or create a new one. If you publish … Continue reading →

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The Advantages of Blogging for an Emacs User

Posted on 2018-02-07 by jcs

I, and many others, have written thousands of words about the advantages of using Emacs for blogging. In my case, I could, if I wanted, publish Irreal and virtually never visit the site itself; I can do everything from Emacs. … Continue reading →

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Mu 1.0 Problem Solved

Posted on 2018-02-06 by jcs

In yesterday’s post, I wrote that I had installed the new version of mu/mu4e but that the inbox and searches were showing some deleted messages as well as the ones I was looking for. I was gearing up to dive … Continue reading →

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Mu 1.0

Posted on 2018-02-05 by jcs

Good news for all you mu/mu4e users: The mu/mu4e e-mail searcher and mail client have reached 1.0 — after 10 years! Rejoice — https://t.co/U5zyjtVRwI pic.twitter.com/SpehjHyfxp — djcb (@djcb) February 3, 2018 I’ve really been looking forward to the “format equals … Continue reading →

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Another Take on Engineering Notebooks

Posted on 2018-02-04 by jcs

As regular readers know, I’m a big fan of keeping an engineering notebook. I have an Org file named journal.org that most of my day-to-day notes go into but for larger, sustained projects I like to start a dedicated project … Continue reading →

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The Suit That Would Not Die

Posted on 2018-02-03 by jcs

It’s very possible that some of Irreal’s younger readers won’t even know what this is about. Older readers will just shake their heads like I did and think, “I thought that was over years ago.” But it isn’t. Sadly, The … Continue reading →

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Privacy Finally Wins One

Posted on 2018-02-02 by jcs

An appeals court in the UK has declared the UK Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (the so-called Snooper’s Charter) illegal. The judges ruled that the law provided insufficient safeguards. As you’d expect, the government trotted out the usual specter of the … Continue reading →

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Abo-abo

Posted on 2018-02-01 by jcs

Oleh Krehel (abo-abo) is the author of many outstanding packages including the essential Ivy/Swiper/Counsel suite that revolutionizes searching. A few years ago, I wrote that when I get tired of blogging I was going to gin up some Elisp to … Continue reading →

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