Monthly Archives: September 2023

Prompting For Kill Buffer

Posted on 2023-09-10 by jcs

Christian Tietze has a, for me, provocative post on the Emacs 29.1 kill-buffer prompt. I am a stickler for accuracy and consistency: just ask my family that has to endure my rants about inconsistencies between episodes of TV series. Tietze … Continue reading →

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The Joys of Hippie Expand

Posted on 2023-09-09 by jcs

Over at the Emacs Elements Channel there’s an excellent video on Hippie Expand, The main problem with Hippie Expand is its name. It gives you no clue as to what it does or why you might want to use it. … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Politicians and Mathematics

Posted on 2023-09-08 by jcs

Irreal doesn’t do politics but it’s no secret that we hold politicians in low esteem. It’s always a battle between politicians and journalists for the rank of the least respectable profession. I was reminded of all this by an article … Continue reading →

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Another Mode Line Implementation

Posted on 2023-09-07 by jcs

After watching and writing about Prot’s video on custom mode lines I’ve been experiencing a vague urge to customize my own. Adding to that urge has been a couple of posts by James Dyer who has also felt the urge. … Continue reading →

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More Sqlite-mode Extensions

Posted on 2023-09-06 by jcs

Álvaro Ramírez has extended his extensions to the Emacs 29 Sqlite mode. I no longer have to interact with SQL databases for work but these days seemingly every application uses an sqlite database. Why not? Sqlite databases don’t require a … Continue reading →

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Elisp One Sexp At A Time

Posted on 2023-09-05 by jcs

Some of the Irreal posts that make me the happiest are those that reveal a single tip that helps readers improve their workflow. Tony Aldon has an ongoing video project that presents a single piece of Elisp that performs some … Continue reading →

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Task Management With Org Agenda

Posted on 2023-09-04 by jcs

Denis Kyashif has a nice post on how he uses the Org mode agenda to handle his task management. He has two main requirements: It should be easy to add tasks to his task list. It should be easy to … Continue reading →

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Compiler Humor

Posted on 2023-09-03 by jcs

Apropos of Nothing, as Cheryl Crow once put it, here’s something you don’t see very often: compiler humor. From another era when engineers were still allowed to inject whimsy into software, Tony Cunningham offers us a selection of error messages … Continue reading →

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Org Agenda Tasks

Posted on 2023-09-02 by jcs

Charles Choi has published an interesting post on defining org agenda tasks. All Org users, I’m sure, are familiar with the Org Agenda that lists the Org headlines in each of the files in org-agenda-files and provides a link to … Continue reading →

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2-Column Editing

Posted on 2023-09-01 by jcs

Emacs Elements has an interesting video on something I didn’t really know about: 2-Column editing. I say “really know about” because I always assumed it was just another name for follow mode. But, of course, it’s an entirely different thing. … Continue reading →

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