Monthly Archives: December 2020

Happy New Year

Posted on 2020-12-31 by jcs

There’s not much happening today so I’m going to settle for wishing all Irreal readers a very Happy New Year from the Minions and me.

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A Global Hyper Key

Posted on 2020-12-30 by jcs

There’s an interesting article over at Prodtyping that illustrates how to implement a global Hyper key on the Mac. By “global” I mean it works everywhere, not just Emacs. The idea is to use Hyper as a global shortcut key. … Continue reading →

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Emacs FAQ

Posted on 2020-12-29 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, okimka suggests that an Emacs FAQ for the subreddit would be a good idea and even suggests a few questions and their answers. The comments generally complained about the questions and some of the answers … Continue reading →

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More on Emacs and the Unix Way

Posted on 2020-12-28 by jcs

Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) just put up an interesting post that serves as a nice coda to yesterday’s Irreal post, Emacs As a 2D CLI. His take is not so much that Emacs fits nicely into the Unix paradigm but that … Continue reading →

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Emacs As a 2D CLI

Posted on 2020-12-27 by jcs

Hongchao Liu has an interesting discussion about viewing Emacs as a two dimensional command line interface. He begins by arguing that Emacs does, in fact, adhere to the Unix principal of doing one thing well. That’s very counterintuitive but Liu … Continue reading →

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Org Mode for Reproducible Research

Posted on 2020-12-26 by jcs

Thibault Lestang of Oxford University has a very nice video that makes the case for using Emacs and, in particular, Org-mode for academic research. He’s very interested in reproducible research and his talk is centered around the idea of Org-mode … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: C++

Posted on 2020-12-25 by jcs

It’s Christmas and it’s Friday so here’s a little gift from the Minions and me: #quotes #tech #CPP #programming #language #emacs pic.twitter.com/K5uWmRuVph — Devopedia (@devopedia) December 25, 2020

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This Is Tech Journalism II

Posted on 2020-12-24 by jcs

A couple of weeks ago I made fun of tech journalism. It was an easy—some might even say a cheap—shot but Gizmodo brings this kind of ridicule on themselves. Sadly, besides the buffoonery, there’s actual malpractice going on. Cellebrite is … Continue reading →

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Finding Pangrams in the NYT Spelling Bee Puzzle

Posted on 2020-12-23 by jcs

From time to time I find a reference to a New York Times article in my feed. I had to register with the NYT to be able to read them and one side effect of that registration is that every … Continue reading →

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Mastering Emacs is a Slow But Enjoyable Process

Posted on 2020-12-22 by jcs

Over at Where parallels cross, Andrea has an interesting post that recounts his slow but enjoyable journey to Emacs mastery. Like many Emacsers, the journey began with his PhD studies. Since then he has learned more Emacs and integrated it … Continue reading →

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