Monthly Archives: October 2022

Emacs Modifier Keys in X-Windows

Posted on 2022-10-31 by jcs

Most Irreal readers know that Emacs offers the Hyper and Super modifier keys for use in keybindings. Less well known is that there is also an Alt key. It’s not the Alt key that appears on most modern keyboards that … Continue reading →

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The Coverup Begins to Unravel

Posted on 2022-10-30 by jcs

Irreal has long been suspicious about the back story of COVID-19. As I’ve written before, if you put on your scientific hat, the only possible conclusion is that there’s not yet any definite resolution to covid-19’s genesis. But if you … Continue reading →

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Mickey on Readline

Posted on 2022-10-29 by jcs

Mickey has another great post that will be immediately useful to almost every Irreal reader. The post is about the functionality of the GNU readline library. As Mickey says, almost everyone knows that readline (or at least BASH) implements the … Continue reading →

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An Org-mode to DOCX Pipeline

Posted on 2022-10-28 by jcs

Erik L. Arneson has a useful post that describes his method of converting an Org document to DOCX. His reason for doing that is the usual: his clients want a Word document but like all right thinking people, Arneson prefers … Continue reading →

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Speeding Up Emacs Garbage Collection

Posted on 2022-10-27 by jcs

Tyler Dodge over at Living the Dream Blog has a very interesting post on his research on Emacs garbage collection time. He discovered that a a simple parameter change could reduce garbage collection wall clock time by 50%. The change … Continue reading →

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Another Hugo Blogging Workflow

Posted on 2022-10-26 by jcs

Andrey Listopadov has (yet another) post on blogging with Hugo. His post is distinguished by his attempt to be comprehensive. He says that when he was trying to start blogging all the “how to” posts were too shallow to be … Continue reading →

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Playing YouTube Videos in Emacs

Posted on 2022-10-25 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski often watches long YouTube videos (frequently lectures) and sometimes can’t watch the whole thing in a single sitting. A couple of weeks ago, he wrote a post about capturing the elapsed play time where he left off and … Continue reading →

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Undo In Region

Posted on 2022-10-24 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, tms9918 says he sometimes changes a line, make changes in other parts of the file, and then wants to restore that first line. He was asking if there was anyway of doing that. There is, … Continue reading →

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Organizing Your Life With Org Mode

Posted on 2022-10-23 by jcs

Karl Voit has reposted an article from 2018 on using Org-mode to organize your life. Voit, as many of you know, is very interested in personal information managers (PIMs) and curating information for later retrieval. He says that when he … Continue reading →

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Mickey on Generating TOTP Codes

Posted on 2022-10-22 by jcs

Happily for us Emacsers, Mickey has been blogging up a storm on Emacs topics lately. His latest offering is on generating TOPT codes with Emacs. TOPT is “Time-Based One-Time Password”. If that doesn’t mean anything to you, it’s the basis … Continue reading →

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