Monthly Archives: September 2020

Panic’s Nova Editor

Posted on 2020-09-20 by jcs

My friend Watts has been wandering around in the editor wilderness for the almost 20 years that I’ve known him. He’s used them all: Vim, Emacs, BBEdit, TextMate, VS Code, Sublime Text, and probably any other editor you’ve ever heard … Continue reading →

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Leveraging Emacs Introspection

Posted on 2020-09-19 by jcs

James Cash has an instructive video that shows how to leverage Emacs introspection to solves problems or make simple changes. Cash doesn’t like the way Return behaves when the point is on a list item. The default behavior is simply … Continue reading →

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Describe Package

Posted on 2020-09-18 by jcs

Just the other day when I was writing the post about Steve Purcell’s rewrite of whole-line-or-region, I wanted to ensure that I had the latest version of whole-line-or-region to make sure there weren’t any gotchas after an upgrade. I did … Continue reading →

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Online Voting and Banking

Posted on 2020-09-17 by jcs

There are, I’m sure, no Irreal readers who don’t understand that online voting is a really hard problem and that, currently, there are no good solutions. Those without a technical background don’t understand this and ask questions like, “If we … Continue reading →

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Prelude 1.0

Posted on 2020-09-16 by jcs

Bozhidar Batsov has just announced the release of Prelude 1.0. Don’t let the 1.0 version fool you. Prelude is over 9 years old and a very mature product. Batsov expects work on Prelude to continue but doesn’t envision major changes. … Continue reading →

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Daring Fireball on Tracking Redux

Posted on 2020-09-15 by jcs

A few days ago, I wrote a post praising Daring Fireball for it’s take on adtech’s panty-wetting reaction to Apple’s plan to require user permission before accessing the advertising ID (IDFA) on Apple devices. Adtech loves the IDFA because it … Continue reading →

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Org Mode 9.4 Released

Posted on 2020-09-14 by jcs

Bastien Guerry writes that Org 9.4 has been released: 9 months after 9.3, #emacs #orgmode 9.4 is out, enjoy!https://t.co/W2c3ifoFtr This release deserves a few highlights 👇 — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) September 14, 2020 The changes are here and Guerry also … Continue reading →

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An Update for whole-line-or-region

Posted on 2020-09-13 by jcs

Most of you probably know Steve Purcell as the man behind MELPA or perhaps for his Emacs configuration, which many use as a starter kit. But, in fact, he’s the author or maintainer of numerous packages, one of which is … Continue reading →

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Happy Programmers Day

Posted on 2020-09-12 by jcs

This being a leap year means that Programmers Day comes a day early. As a cal -j will tell you, today is, in fact, the 256th day of the year. So happy Programmers Day to all you Irreal readers who … Continue reading →

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An Emacs Workflow for Videos and Podcasts

Posted on 2020-09-11 by jcs

Protesilaos Stavrou has posted a very nice video that describes how he uses Bongo and Elfeed to play and control his videos and podcasts. Just being able to handle your videos and podcasts with Emacs is a win because it … Continue reading →

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