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Monthly Archives: August 2023
Zamansky: Learning Elisp #9
Mike Zamansky is back with the concluding video in his function header project. It’s the 9th video in his Learning Elisp series. This video ties up the loose ends in the previous videos in the project and provides a serviceable … Continue reading
Striving For A Mouse Free Workflow
As I’ve often suggested—most recently here and here—I try to minimize my use of the mouse as much as I can. Mostly that’s been in the context of Emacs where it’s easy. My desire to avoid the mouse is not … Continue reading
Weather Update
Idalia did indeed move a bit West resulting in a minimal impact in Tampa. The Irreal bunker didn’t lose power and had only moderate winds. The weather people say it’s possible we could get some more wind so it’s possible, … Continue reading
Hurricane Alert
It’s late summer in Florida so of course the weather is getting dicey. The latest excitement is hurricane Idalia, which is currently about 200 miles West of Key West and forecast to move up the coast of Florida and come … Continue reading
Bell Labs: The Idea Factory
Irreal has been on an Emacs binge for the last few weeks so here’s a change of pace. This post is about a Computerphile video featuring Brian Kernighan talking about what it was like to work at Bell Labs. Kernighan, … Continue reading
Subword Mode
This should probably be a Red Meat Friday post but I really hate camel case. It’s hard to read, hard to type, and looks ugly. Among it’s many other sins, it has made abominations such as subword mode necessary. Over … Continue reading
Editing In The Dired Buffer With Occur
I ran across this Toot—or whatever Mastodon calls it—in Sacha’s weekly Emacs News: Even though it’s sort of old news at this point, it’s worth calling attention to. The idea is to use occur to narrow down the files in … Continue reading
Red Meat Friday: Emacs vs. Vi
It’s a slow Friday here at Irreal so today’s offering barely qualifies as red meat but you may find it amusing. Someone posted this link to A Comparitive Study of VI and EMACS from the perspective of novice and regular … Continue reading
The Downtown Apocalypse
If you’ve been around Irreal for a while, you know that I’m fascinated with remote work. I don’t understand why anyone wouldn’t embrace it but I realize that some don’t. Regardless, remote work is dug in and here to stay. … Continue reading
Zamansky: Learning Elisp #8
Mike Zamansky has published the latest video in his Learning Elisp series, Learning Elisp 8. It’s the second video about building a function to generate function header comments. This video continues the discussion of regular expressions by considering the rx … Continue reading