Tag Archives: Emacs

Return Of The Prodigal Son

Posted on 2026-01-29 by jcs

Well, not really prodigal, but the return—nonetheless—of a son assumed lost. Michał Sapka has a blog post about his return to Emacs. A while ago, Sapka left Emacs for Vim and the shell. He liked them but realized that Emacs … Continue reading →

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Gruber On File Saving Ease

Posted on 2026-01-27 by jcs

John Gruber, over at Daring Fireball has a post, Untitled Document Syndrome, that makes two points of interest to Irreal readers. The first involves the difficulty of initially saving what he calls “untitled documents”. He’s writing about macOS, of course, … Continue reading →

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Starting A Journal

Posted on 2026-01-26 by jcs

A couple of weeks ago I read a lovely story in The New Yorker by Calvin Tompkins about starting a journal in his hundredth year. Tompkins was born the same year that The New Yorker was founded and, ironically, spent … Continue reading →

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Emacs Performance on macOS

Posted on 2026-01-25 by jcs

Does Emacs run slower on macOS than it does on a similar machine running Linux? I don’t know. I’ve been running Emacs almost exclusively on macOS for somewhere around 17 years so its performance on macOS, whatever it is, seems … Continue reading →

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Casual EWW

Posted on 2026-01-23 by jcs

You’ve all heard me moan many times about my failure to bring my last remaining significant application—Web browsing—into Emacs. There are some solutions but none of them come close to being sufficient. If you want full featured browsing, you’re mostly … Continue reading →

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When Should You Use Visual-line-mode?

Posted on 2026-01-22 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, floofcode complains that he doesn’t like the way visual-line-mode handles moving from line to line. He found that everything worked fine without visual-line-mode so he wondered when is visual-line-mode useful. If you read his post, … Continue reading →

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Saving The Elfeed Database

Posted on 2026-01-21 by jcs

I’ve written before that one of things I love about Elfeed is that it keeps a database of all your feed entries. That makes it easy to find earlier content if you need to revisit or reference it for some … Continue reading →

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TMR Video

Posted on 2026-01-20 by jcs

Despite what I wrote last time about tmr, I’ve come to realize that deep down I’m a timer nerd. As my family will tell you, I can be anal about following directions precisely. If the recipe says to beat the … Continue reading →

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The Success of Markdown

Posted on 2026-01-19 by jcs

Anil Dash has a long post on How Markdown Took Over The World. We Org mode users may have a few problems with that depiction but it is fair to say that Markdown usage has become ubiquitous. We see it … Continue reading →

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Regulating Your Writing Workflow With Emacs

Posted on 2026-01-18 by jcs

A few days ago, Chris Maiorana wrote an article, The 10-Commit Rule: how git version control can improve writing quality, about how he uses Git and Emacs to regulate his writing workflow. The idea is to track how many changes … Continue reading →

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