Tag Archives: Emacs

Emacs and the Unix Philosophy

Posted on 2022-08-19 by jcs

Ramin Honary has a six part series of posts that presses the claim that Emacs does, in fact, adhere to the Unix Philosophy that a program should do one thing and do it well. Almost everyone else’s opinion is that … Continue reading →

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Keeping Data and Code in the Same File

Posted on 2022-08-16 by jcs

John D. Cook has another post in his series on coding in Org-mode. The latest emphasizes how you can keep data, code, and documentation in a single (Org) file. There’s nothing new in that idea for most Irreal readers, of … Continue reading →

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More dwim-shell-command

Posted on 2022-08-15 by jcs

Álvaro Ramírez continues his roll with yet another function for his dwim-shell-command framework. This time, it’s a function to combine several .png files into a single .pdf file. As with the other functions, the point is not to enable new … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Emacs Sucks

Posted on 2022-08-12 by jcs

As you can tell from the title, this is the rawest of red meat. The title comes from a post on reddit by BlackberryPerfect938 entitled Why Emacs Sucks. On the one hand, what else is new? Plenty of people try … Continue reading →

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A Graduate Student Research Workflow

Posted on 2022-08-08 by jcs

Koustuv Sinha is a PhD student in machine learning and natural language processing. Because much of his time is devoted to reading research papers in his field, he’s devoted significant effort into optimizing his workflow. The TL;DR is that he’s … Continue reading →

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Org-mode Versus Jupyter Notebook

Posted on 2022-08-06 by jcs

John D. Cook, a consulting mathematician, who runs the TeX and Typography Twitter feed as well as several similar—mostly mathematically focused—feeds has two posts that consider using Org-mode instead of Jupyter Notebook. It’s interesting because it comes from someone who … Continue reading →

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Mickey on Evaluating Elisp

Posted on 2022-08-04 by jcs

Mickey from Mastering Emacs has an excellent post on the various ways of evaluating Elisp in Emacs. As Mickey says, there are several ways of doing it depending on the context and it pays to be familiar with them all. … Continue reading →

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Dired-rsync

Posted on 2022-08-02 by jcs

Yi Tang has an interesting post on the dired-rsync package. It’s been around for a while, apparently, but I hadn’t heard of it before Tang’s post. The TL;DR is it allows you to use rsync in dired in the same … Continue reading →

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Changing How Emacs Works

Posted on 2022-07-31 by jcs

Karthik has a nifty video on how to change the way Emacs works. We’re all fond of saying that Emacs is infinitely extensible and customizable but then we usually go out for a beer without saying how. Kathink remedies that … Continue reading →

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Improvements to dwim-shell-command

Posted on 2022-07-30 by jcs

Álvaro Ramírez has been busy making improvements to his excellent dwim-shell-command package. I’ve written a lot about this package recently but that’s okay because it’s something most Irreal readers would want to know about. The TL;DR is that the package … Continue reading →

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