Monthly Archives: January 2024

Query Replace Regexp

Posted on 2024-01-11 by jcs

Susam Pal has a nice reminder on using query-replace-regexp. Most Emacs users know about the command and its binding Ctrl+Meta+% but Pal’s post mentions some less known features that can be very useful. The first—and simplest—is using \& in the … Continue reading →

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Boeing Again

Posted on 2024-01-10 by jcs

I was reading this PBS story on the recent Alaskan Airlines incident in which a door panel blew off in midair and it tickled a distant memory of a post I wrote about Boeing before. A simple search of Irreal … Continue reading →

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Removing Diacritics From A String

Posted on 2024-01-09 by jcs

Jeremy Friesen has another interesting post. This time it’s about removing diacritics from a string. His problem is that he uses the same string for the title of a post as well as the name of the file containing the … Continue reading →

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Elisp Specifics

Posted on 2024-01-08 by jcs

Lots of Emacs users find Elisp intimidating. There are at least two aspects to this. First of all, it’s a Lisp. That means that everything looks different and, yes, there are a lot of parentheses. But this is only an … Continue reading →

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MacAdie’s Frequent Org Commands

Posted on 2024-01-07 by jcs

Eric MacAdie has an update to his previous post on his frequent Emacs commands. This post takes a look at his frequent Org mode commands. As with Emacs proper, MacAdie has an idiosyncratic method of dealing with Org. Rather than … Continue reading →

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Avoiding Large Archive Files

Posted on 2024-01-06 by jcs

Over at Free Range Bits, Peter Jones has a nice solution to the problem of large Org mode archive files. The idea of an archive file is that you can move a retired subtree of a file to an archive … Continue reading →

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An Example Of A Emacs Keyboard Macro

Posted on 2024-01-05 by jcs

Jeremy Friesen has an interesting example of using an Emacs keyboard macro. What makes it interesting is that the macro deals with three files, switching between them as needed. The problem he was solving, as I understand it, was to … Continue reading →

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Extracting Text From An Emacs Buffer

Posted on 2024-01-04 by jcs

Rajasegar Chandran has an interesting and useful post on how to extract text from an Emacs buffer. You wouldn’t think there’s a lot to know but there are at least two wrinkles. First you might not want the whole buffer … Continue reading →

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MacAdie’s Go To Emacs Commands

Posted on 2024-01-03 by jcs

Eric MacAdie is probably familiar to many Irreal readers from his reports on the EmacsATX meetings. His latest post recounts his history with Emacs and includes a list of the Emacs commands that he got by with for most of … Continue reading →

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One Last Time With Marking The Active Window

Posted on 2024-01-02 by jcs

I thought I was finished writing about marking the active Emacs window so that it stands out. It all started with my post on James Dyer’s method of placing a red line on the left hand fringe. I liked his … Continue reading →

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