Monthly Archives: August 2026

Markup Editing In Org Mode

Posted on 2026-08-11 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) does a lot of writing and, of course, uses Org mode for most of it. The hard part, he says, is not the writing but the editing. In particular, he’s talking about the emphasis markup. If he … Continue reading →

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Conditional Abbrevs

Posted on 2026-08-10 by jcs

Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) has another nice video on something that I was vaguely aware of but had never used: conditional abbreviations. As most Emacers know, you can define abbreviations that will expand into another, usually longer or more complicated, string. … Continue reading →

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Deskstop Save Without The Restore

Posted on 2026-08-09 by jcs

Srijan Choudhary likes desktop-save-mode but he wants a slightly different behavior. He likes having his session configuration saved but he usually doesn’t want it restored. He wants to restore it only when he closed it by mistake or forget do … Continue reading →

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A Customized Agenda View

Posted on 2026-08-08 by jcs

Ashish Panigrahi has an interesting post on customizing his agenda view. He’s a graduate student, apparently in the sciences, and has to keep track of his tasks and their statuses. The natural solution for us Emacsers is to use Org … Continue reading →

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Emacs 31 And The Speedbar

Posted on 2026-08-07 by jcs

Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) has another excellent video. This time it’s on it’s on the Emacs speedbar and its Emacs 31 upgrade. The TL;DR is that as of Emacs 31, you can configure the speedbar to be displayed in a separate … Continue reading →

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Displaying The Active Clock

Posted on 2026-08-06 by jcs

Over at Ray on Emacs, Raymond Zeitler has an interesting post on displaying the Org clocked in status. The default is to display it in the mode line but Zeitler wanted to display it in the title bar too. It … Continue reading →

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Another Reason To Use An Ad Blocker

Posted on 2026-08-05 by jcs

Long term Irreal readers know that I’ve always been ambivalent about ad blockers. On the one hand, many Web sites that provide content need to make money to survive and the only generally effective way of doing that is through … Continue reading →

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I 🩷 RSS

Posted on 2026-08-04 by jcs

I don’t use social media. Why would I? Who wants some algorithm telling you what to read and filtering your own content? What I do like is RSS. You see messages about all the content from all the sites you’re … Continue reading →

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The Em Dash And Emacs

Posted on 2026-08-03 by jcs

Irreal, as you all know, is an em-dash friendly site. Irreal has always liked them and now we like them even more because it puts a thumb in the eye of those mentally challenged folks who claim, erroneously, that “real … Continue reading →

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Lisp Dialects Compared

Posted on 2026-08-02 by jcs

Elia Scotto has an excellent post on the major Lisp dialects. There are, of course, several Lisp flavors and while they share many features—including, more or less, syntax—there are nevertheless differences that make the choice of which one to use … Continue reading →

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