Monthly Archives: July 2025

The NTSB Speaks

Posted on 2025-07-11 by jcs

As you probably know, we here at Irreal take a dim view of Management meddling in the inner workings of Engineering. That is not at all the same as taking a dim view of Management: they are an important and … Continue reading →

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Flyover

Posted on 2025-07-10 by jcs

Note: Sorry, I got caught up with life and completely forgot to publish this this morning. If you’re a Flycheck or Flymake user and like eye candy, you might enjoy this new package from Mikael Konradsson. It’s a nice looking … Continue reading →

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Resetting All Checkboxes In An Org Buffer

Posted on 2025-07-09 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (Mbork) has a problem that many of we Org users have: He likes to use checkbox lists to organize tasks to ensure that he doesn’t forget any steps. An example that will resonate with most of us is … Continue reading →

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Writing With Emacs #1

Posted on 2025-07-08 by jcs

Greg Newman has another episode of Emacs Carnival going this month. This time it’s about using Emacs for writing. That’s a subject I’m very interested in so I’ve been looking forward to this episode’s contributions. The first is from Erik … Continue reading →

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Safely Updating Emacs Packages

Posted on 2025-07-07 by jcs

I tend to be a pretty conservative Emacs user. I generally don’t run beta versions and try to keep my packages up to date without constant upgrading. To be sure, some folks are much more conservative in that they save … Continue reading →

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Speeding Up Magit On macOS

Posted on 2025-07-06 by jcs

If you’re using Magit on macOS, here’s a tip that will either improve your life considerably or not affect you at all. The tip is from Greg Newman who says that it reduced his commit time from about 4 seconds … Continue reading →

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Simply Annotate

Posted on 2025-07-05 by jcs

James Dyer has announced a new package called Simply Annotate. It is, as the name suggests, a package to make annotations to a file with the feature that the original file is not modified. There are, of course, as Dyer … Continue reading →

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Emacs Users: How Are Your Hands?

Posted on 2025-07-04 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, SecretTraining4082 asks long term vanilla Emacs users how their hands are holding up. You’d be forgiven if you think the answer is “terrible”. After all, it’s received wisdom that Emacs’ default key bindings are particularly … Continue reading →

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Emacs Second Try

Posted on 2025-07-03 by jcs

After yesterdays post about Charles Choi’s second take on Eshell, I discovered that Choi’s post was part of a collection by Christian Tietze on a second take on various Emacs topics. Tietze himself had a post on Emacs on Second … Continue reading →

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Charles Choi’s Second Take On Eshell

Posted on 2025-07-02 by jcs

If you’re a regular Irreal reader, you’ll be familiar with Charles Choi. He often has useful takes on Emacs matters and, of course, he’s the author of the excellent Casual Suite that helps you use all the arcane features of … Continue reading →

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