Monthly Archives: February 2024

Red Meat Friday: Reaching New Heights In Illegibility

Posted on 2024-02-09 by jcs

The other night I was enjoying a sound, dreamless sleep when at 3 AM there was pounding on my bedroom door and the minions started jumping up and down on my bed. “Mrrflx. Wha? Wha’s happening?” It turns out the … Continue reading →

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Prot On Abrev-Mode

Posted on 2024-02-08 by jcs

Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) has posted a nifty video on abbrev-mode. It turns out that there’s a lot more to it than you might have thought. Prot says that you can think of it as a lightweight alternative for yasnippet or … Continue reading →

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Martin Fowler On Completion And Ivy

Posted on 2024-02-07 by jcs

If you’ve been around Irreal for a while, you know that I’m a hug fan of abo-abo’s Swiper/Ivy/Counsel package. Its minibuffer completion system means that if I can get anywhere near the name of a command I’m trying to run … Continue reading →

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Building Emacs On macOS

Posted on 2024-02-06 by jcs

I often see posts on reddit and similar venues from people asking for help in building Emacs on Macs. On the one hand, it could hardly be simpler: you just download the code and call make. On the other hand, … Continue reading →

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Remote Work Won

Posted on 2024-02-05 by jcs

Adam Singer has a splendid rant about those who refuse to acknowledge that remote work has won out over the return-to-workers. The holdouts, he says, are bad managers and those with holdings in commercial real estate (CRE). You can understand … Continue reading →

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Which Function Mode

Posted on 2024-02-04 by jcs

Ruslan Bekenev has an interesting post that discusses which-function-mode. I was vaguely familiar with it before I read Bekenev’s post but never thought much about it. Bekenev, however, makes a good case for it. His use case is that he … Continue reading →

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Emacs Elements On Iedit

Posted on 2024-02-03 by jcs

Emacs Elements has a very short video on a relatively unknown but extraordinarily useful command: iedit. It does basically the same job as multiple cursors but is builtin and a bit simpler. It’s less powerful than multiple cursors but is … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Transparent Windows: Just Say No

Posted on 2024-02-02 by jcs

As you all know, the Minions are in a never ending death match with dark Emacs themes. To them, there is no worse UI choice. I submit, though, that they haven’t considered all the possibilities and that there are, in … Continue reading →

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Nested Key Maps

Posted on 2024-02-01 by jcs

Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) has a great video on nesting key maps. A nested key map is just what it sounds like: a key map inside another key map. What that means practically is that one key shortcut will lead to … Continue reading →

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