Monthly Archives: September 2025

Note Sorry this is late. The Internet has been out all day here. Post James Cherti, the author of inhibit-mouse, has a blog post that talks about the package. Irreal wrote about the package last week but you may enjoy … Continue reading →

Over at the Emacs subreddit, emacff wants to know how he can eliminate Emacs “bloat”. It’s a harmless question and if it’s purpose was trolling, it largely failed as emacff received reasonable answers to his question. Still, it’s annoying. We … Continue reading →

Jakub Nowak has entered the Emacs Carnival: Obscure Packages sweepstakes. His entry is about tmr. For those of you who don’t know, tmr is a packages that allows you to set timers from within Emacs. Until I got my iWatch … Continue reading →

In a nice followup to yesterday’s post on Casual BibTeX, Charles Choi has another post on easily capturing a Web link to your BibTeX file. The idea is that you’re looking at some paper or other information in your Web … Continue reading →

Charles Choi is at it again. He has a new addition to his Casual suite. This time it’s for handling BibTeX files. As you probably know, BibTeX files are essentially plain text databases of bibliographic data. They’re deeply integrated with … Continue reading →

Randy Ridenour has risen to the challenge from the latest Emacs Carnival on obscure Emacs packages. His candidate is the Yankpad package. I vaguely remember hearing about Yankpad (edit: I mentioned it here) but didn’t remember anything about it so … Continue reading →

It’s a matter of faith here at Irreal, and in many other places, that any function that can be brought into Emacs should be brought into Emacs. Oddly, to us true believers, there are those who disagree. One such person … Continue reading →

One of the strengths of Emacs is that for most operations there are options. Line wrapping is a case in point. There are several line wrapping methods and which one you use depends on context. When coding, you may not … Continue reading →

If you’ve been around Irreal for even a little while, you know I hate using the mouse. I don’t like to use it anywhere but I particularly hate using it in Emacs. So I don’t—mostly. I use WebKit to display … Continue reading →