Monthly Archives: June 2025

Using Ramírez’s DWIM Tools

Posted on 2025-06-10 by jcs

I’ve written several times about Álvaro Ramírez’s DWIM tools [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] and their use in easily invoking command line utilities from the comfort of Emacs. Ramírez has a large collection of such utilities built on the … Continue reading →

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Learning To Love Emacs

Posted on 2025-06-09 by jcs

My friend and erstwhile colleague Watts Martin has been seeking the one true path of light and virtue. After years of aborted attempts to embrace Emacs, he has, it seems, finally succeeded. Actually, snark aside, I understand his journey. It … Continue reading →

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Bill Atkinson, RIP

Posted on 2025-06-08 by jcs

Sadly, Bill Atkinson has died. Atkinson was an early Apple employee who, among other things, wrote MacPaint, QuickDraw, and the HyperCard system. Everyone who knew him considers him one of the best programmers of all time. Here, in his own … Continue reading →

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macOS Keybindings On Cocoa Ports

Posted on 2025-06-07 by jcs

In response to my post macOS Keybindings In Emacs, Paul R. Jorgensen notes that not every macOS Emacs port has the OS bindings defined. In particular, those ports based on the Mac’s Cocoa interface don’t support them. Jorgensen has his … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: AI And The End Times

Posted on 2025-06-06 by jcs

It’s hard to find anything on the Web that doesn’t somehow involve AI. We here at the Irreal bunker are a bit skeptical. We view LLM AI as little more than a magic trick not all that different from Eliza … Continue reading →

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macOS Keybindings In Emacs

Posted on 2025-06-05 by jcs

I periodically publish reminders that macOS uses some common Emacs editing keystrokes by default, and that You can do much better by adding other Emacs keystrokes to those that macOS will recognize. Here’s one such recent reminder. Now Bozhidar Batsov … Continue reading →

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Casual Timezone

Posted on 2025-06-04 by jcs

Charles Choi has another great addition to his Casual Suite. This time he helps us with the common problem of figuring out what time it is in some other place. As Choi says, the Internet makes it common to communicate … Continue reading →

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Improving Keyboard-quit

Posted on 2025-06-03 by jcs

Bozhidar Batsov is back with a quick tip that many of you will probably find useful. It’s an improvement to keyboard-quit or, as we all know and love it, Ctrl+g. One of Batsov’s pet peeves is that keyboard-quit doesn’t function … Continue reading →

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Why Does Emacs Take So Long To Load

Posted on 2025-06-02 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, EachDaySameAsLast asks the perennial question: why does Emacs take so long to load. Actually, his question is, “Why do people say Emacs takes so long to load?” He has, he says, been using Emacs since … Continue reading →

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Web Browsing In Emacs

Posted on 2025-06-01 by jcs

Joar Von Arndt has an interesting post on a subject that many Emacs users obsess about: how to bring Web browser functionality into Emacs. As, I’ve said many times, virtually all my tube time is either in Emacs or Safari. … Continue reading →

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