Monthly Archives: September 2023

Org-side-tree

Posted on 2023-09-30 by jcs

Grant Rosson has an announcement on reddit about his new package org-side-tree. The idea is that you can have a sidebar that lists all the headings in an Org file. That doesn’t sound too exciting but you can use the … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: A Case For Journalists

Posted on 2023-09-29 by jcs

In a previous Red Meat Friday post, Irreal pondered whether politicians or journalists are the least respectable profession. It’s still an open question and while most people would probably declare politicians the winners, John Gruber has a post that provides … Continue reading →

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Cybernetic Productivity and Emacs

Posted on 2023-09-28 by jcs

Victor Dorneanu has an interesting post on Cybernetic Productivity and Emacs. Like Dorneanu, I was unfamiliar with the term but it has, apparently, been around since the early 2000s. It’s a strategy for dealing with your workload in the digital … Continue reading →

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Using Gnuplot With Org Mode Tables

Posted on 2023-09-27 by jcs

James Dyer has an interesting post on using Gnuplot to plot data from Org tables. Gnuplot is my go to utility for plotting data but its syntax is, to put it mildly, convoluted and since I don’t use it all … Continue reading →

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Periodic Reminder: Emacs Bindings in macOS

Posted on 2023-09-26 by jcs

Once again, as is occasionally the happens, I’ve stumbled across an Emacs user who discovered that some Emacs keybindings work in macOS. This user, sudeenhux, realized that he could navigate in the Apple Mail app with the normal Emacs bindings. … Continue reading →

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Navigating In View Mode

Posted on 2023-09-25 by jcs

Emacs view mode is one of things that might seem superfluous at first glance. After all, you can always just visit a file and use the normal navigation commands to view the file. But there’s a lot to be said … Continue reading →

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New AWK Book

Posted on 2023-09-24 by jcs

Long time Irreal readers know that I’m a fan of the AWK language. Whatever OS you’re using, AWK is sure to be available. It’s installed by default on all Unix/Linux systems and may be on Windows as well. Linux systems … Continue reading →

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Batch Mode

Posted on 2023-09-23 by jcs

If you’re an even moderately experienced Emacs user, you probably know about batch mode. You can write a file with some Emacs commands and run it either by calling Emacs on the command line with a –script parameter pointing to … Continue reading →

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Live In Emacs Or Die

Posted on 2023-09-22 by jcs

Today, we have a bit of humor that we can all relate to. Reddit has a post announcing the Web browser NYXT inspired by Emacs. I don’t know anything about NXYT but I did love this comment from noooit: Comment … Continue reading →

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Kitchen Sink

Posted on 2023-09-21 by jcs

It’s often said of Emacs that it includes everything including the kitchen sink. Indeed, there’s even an Emacs logo reflecting this sensibility. I don’t know if it was ever an official logo but its use is widespread. Still, it would … Continue reading →

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