Monthly Archives: May 2025

Adding Timestamped Notes To The LOGBOOK Drawer

Posted on 2025-05-31 by jcs

Jeff Bradberry has an excellent post on adding timestamped notes to the LOGBOOK drawer in Org files. Most of us are used to using this drawer to record state changes in TODO notes. You can arrange to have the times … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Load Times Matter?

Posted on 2025-05-30 by jcs

It seems as if everybody having even a passing acquaintance with Emacs is opining about Emacs load times. That includes Irreal, of course. Most of us take the position that it doesn’t really matter how long it takes Emacs to … Continue reading →

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macOS Emacs Tricks

Posted on 2025-05-29 by jcs

I’ve been writing a lot lately about Álvaro Ramírez’s Journelly, an iOS app that I use constantly everyday. It’s a great app that I recommend for everyone. But Ramírez has been writing apps for Emacs and iOS for a long … Continue reading →

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GitHub As A Notebook

Posted on 2025-05-28 by jcs

I like GitHub well enough; I link to it often and even have an account but I would never consider using it for anything but public files that I had replicated on my own machine. I’ve been over the reasons … Continue reading →

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A Mansion That Changes Itself To Suit You

Posted on 2025-05-27 by jcs

iLemming has an interesting post on Hacker News about why younger engineers don’t use Emacs and why they should. You may find the post a bit overwritten but I especially like the ending: The specialized app user lives in rented … Continue reading →

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A Custom Keyboard Optimized For Thumbs

Posted on 2025-05-26 by jcs

Lately, I written a few posts about Emacs-induced RSI and various strategies for overcoming it. For example, my post on The Best Emacs Keyboard seemed to strike a chord with many Irreal readers. One thing that almost everyone agreed on … Continue reading →

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Emacs As A Guix File Manager

Posted on 2025-05-25 by jcs

Lynn Leichtle over at Lynn has an interesting post on using Emacs as a Guix file manager. Almost all of my work these days takes place in the Apple milieu so, of course, I’m not a Guix user and can’t … Continue reading →

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The Ed Editor

Posted on 2025-05-24 by jcs

Kay Lack has an interesting video on the ed editor. As the cognoscenti know, ed is the standard Unix editor, even though virtually no one uses it anymore. The reason for that is that ed was designed for teletypewriters and … Continue reading →

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Opening A Searched For File In Dired

Posted on 2025-05-23 by jcs

If you’re one of those people who obsess about making every Emacs operation as fast as possible, James Dyer has quick tip for you. Dyer uses Dired a lot and one of his common operations is to search for a … Continue reading →

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Batsov Tries Vim (Again)

Posted on 2025-05-22 by jcs

When the Eagles disbanded after a particularly contentious Long Beach concert where Glenn Frey and Don Felder almost came to blows, Don Henley quipped that the band would get back together when Hell freezes over. Fourteen years later the band … Continue reading →

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