Tag Archives: Emacs

Almost Monospaced Fonts

Posted on 2022-11-10 by jcs

In almost every case, proportional fonts are superior. They look better and they’re easier to read. One obvious exception is when programming but, even there, not everyone agrees. Still, most programmers are pretty firm in their preference for monospaced fonts … Continue reading →

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Counting Working Days

Posted on 2022-11-08 by jcs

Here’s a small problem to think about: how many working days are there in this month or, more generally, between any two dates? “Working days” means Monday through Friday minus holidays. It’s not a hard problem but think how you … Continue reading →

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Mini Introduction to Elisp

Posted on 2022-11-06 by jcs

For those of you who are afraid of Lisp—and in particular Elisp—Suraj Kushwah has a short video on Elisp that posits the way to love Emacs is to learn Elisp. I can relate, sort of. I first learned Lisp and … Continue reading →

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Extracting and Displaying EXIF Information

Posted on 2022-11-04 by jcs

Álvaro Ramírez continues to roll out new examples of applications for his dwim-shell-command framework. His latest offering is three functions that, given a photo: Display the EXIF information Displays the location of where the photo was taken in the minibuffer … Continue reading →

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A Discussion of Markup Languages

Posted on 2022-11-02 by jcs

Alex Kladov has a post that discusses various markup languages and what makes a great one. He considers Markdown AsciiDoctor LaTeX reStructuredText HTML He finds them all lacking in various ways. He believes that any markup that’s tied to a … Continue reading →

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EmacsConf 2022 is Coming

Posted on 2022-11-01 by jcs

Leo Vivier announces on the Emacs subreddit that the 2022 EmacsConf is scheduled for December 3rd and 4th. The conference will be live streamed so you needn’t travel to participate. Most of us won’t be able to watch the whole … Continue reading →

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Emacs Modifier Keys in X-Windows

Posted on 2022-10-31 by jcs

Most Irreal readers know that Emacs offers the Hyper and Super modifier keys for use in keybindings. Less well known is that there is also an Alt key. It’s not the Alt key that appears on most modern keyboards that … Continue reading →

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Mickey on Readline

Posted on 2022-10-29 by jcs

Mickey has another great post that will be immediately useful to almost every Irreal reader. The post is about the functionality of the GNU readline library. As Mickey says, almost everyone knows that readline (or at least BASH) implements the … Continue reading →

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An Org-mode to DOCX Pipeline

Posted on 2022-10-28 by jcs

Erik L. Arneson has a useful post that describes his method of converting an Org document to DOCX. His reason for doing that is the usual: his clients want a Word document but like all right thinking people, Arneson prefers … Continue reading →

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Speeding Up Emacs Garbage Collection

Posted on 2022-10-27 by jcs

Tyler Dodge over at Living the Dream Blog has a very interesting post on his research on Emacs garbage collection time. He discovered that a a simple parameter change could reduce garbage collection wall clock time by 50%. The change … Continue reading →

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