Monthly Archives: December 2025

The New Warp Drive; Same As The Old Warp Drive

Posted on 2025-12-21 by jcs

Today’s subject is a little outside of Irreal’s usual fare but as I said in my first post, Irreal is about, among other things, anything that excites my geek sensibilities. This definitely excites my geek sensibilities. The subject, as you … Continue reading →

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Blogging Without Emacs

Posted on 2025-12-20 by jcs

One of the worst things I can imagine in my blogging workflow would be to be unable to use Emacs for writing my posts. Word Press does have an editor for writing posts, of course, but I have never used … Continue reading →

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Converting Org Mode Text To Markdown In The Clipboard

Posted on 2025-12-19 by jcs

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Charles Choi’s post on converting Markdown in the clipboard to Org mode. Now Choi is back with the inverse operation: converting Org mode text to Markdown in the clipboard. This time the … Continue reading →

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The Annoying Usefulness Of Emacs

Posted on 2025-12-18 by jcs

Tsoding has an interesting—possibly tongue in cheek—video that argues that Emacs is annoyingly useful. He begins by saying that he doesn’t like Emacs because it is “yanky and hacky”. Part of the problem, he says, is that Emacs has been … Continue reading →

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Normalizing C-w Between Terminal And Emacs

Posted on 2025-12-17 by jcs

Another quickie for those of you who prefer using Emacs in the terminal. The default Emacs action for Ctrl+w is to delete the current region. In most shells, Ctrl+w deletes the previous word. Srijan Choudhary found this a little disconcerting … Continue reading →

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Handwritten Notes With Emacs

Posted on 2025-12-16 by jcs

Just a quickie today. This post addresses a niche need that most readers probably aren’t facing. Joar Alexander Pablo von Arndt’s girlfriend recently bought a Framework 12 laptop and stylus and wanted to use it to take handwritten notes that … Continue reading →

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Problematic Key In Terminal Emacs

Posted on 2025-12-15 by jcs

For those of you who like to run Emacs in the terminal, Adithya Kumar has some useful advice. One of the problems with using the terminal is that some key presses are not passed on to Emacs. In graphical mode, … Continue reading →

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What Happened To Abo-abo?

Posted on 2025-12-14 by jcs

For a long time I have been a huge fan of abo-abo (Oleh Krehel). He wrote the Ivy, Avy, and Swiper packages that are probably my most used Emacs add ins. Eleven years ago I wrote, “When I get tired … Continue reading →

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Bending Emacs 8: Completing Read

Posted on 2025-12-13 by jcs

Álvaro Ramírez is back with a new video in his Bending Emacs series. This time it’s about the super useful and flexible completing read function. The basic idea is that you supply a prompt and a list of possible answers. … Continue reading →

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Living In Flatland

Posted on 2025-12-12 by jcs

Nathan Marz has an interesting post that makes use of the flatland metaphor to explain Lisp. For those who don’t know, the book Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions describes a two dimensional world inhabited by polygons of various sorts. … Continue reading →

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