Monthly Archives: February 2024

Yeetube

Posted on 2024-02-29 by jcs

As I’ve written many times before, the Irreal bunker strives to be Google free. We mainly succeed in that endeavor with the single exception of YouTube. It’s far and away the best in class service of its type and more … Continue reading →

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A Bit More On The Silliest Emacs Meme

Posted on 2024-02-28 by jcs

Last Friday, I offered up a Red Meat Friday post that discussed the silly but depressingly widely held idea that Emacs is dying. As I said in that post, this is not an idea that’s held by anyone who actually … Continue reading →

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The Roots of Unix

Posted on 2024-02-27 by jcs

While researching for my post The History of C Compilers, I came across another post from Diego Crespo that was sort of along the same lines. This one, Tracing the Lines: From the Telephone to Unix, follows the early history … Continue reading →

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Describe Symbol Redux

Posted on 2024-02-26 by jcs

I just came across this post from Bozhidar Batsov about describe-symbol. It’s a help command, bound to Ctrl+h o, that combines the results of describe-function and describe-variable. The putative advantage of this (newish) command is that a single key shortcut … Continue reading →

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Isearch Transient Menu Now On Melpa

Posted on 2024-02-25 by jcs

Last year, I wrote about Charles Choi’s transient menu for isearch. The idea is that while widely used, isearch is a very complicated function with many options. Most Emacs users don’t know all those options and almost none of them … Continue reading →

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The init-dir Option

Posted on 2024-02-24 by jcs

Bozhidar Batsov over at Emacs Redux has a short post on the new(ish) Emacs command line option, init-dir. It does just what it sounds like: it allows you to specify where to find the init.el file and other configuration information. … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Is Emacs Dying?

Posted on 2024-02-23 by jcs

Is Emacs dying? Lordy, I get so tired of that trope. Don’t like Emacs? I’m fine with that. Sorry you’re missing out, but fine. What I’m not fine with is people who don’t like Emacs and probably have never used … Continue reading →

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OSX Dictionary Interface

Posted on 2024-02-22 by jcs

Here’s something that may be of interest to those of you falling in the intersection of Emacs users and Mac heads. It’s an Emacs interface to the macOS dictionary app. What it does is give you access to the macOS … Continue reading →

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Replacing Dash

Posted on 2024-02-21 by jcs

It seems like only yesterday that Magnar Sveen introduced his Dash library for working with lists. It provided macros and functions for dealing with lists that weren’t covered by the standard Elisp library. Dash gained immediate traction and became a … Continue reading →

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The History of C Compilers

Posted on 2024-02-20 by jcs

Diego Crespo over at Deus In Machina has a nice post on the history of C compilers. If you’re a Unix head, you probably know most of it but it was fun to remember the old days of trying to … Continue reading →

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