Tag Archives: Emacs

Emacs Buffers

Posted on 2022-06-08 by jcs

Mickey from Mastering Emacs has a post, Why Emacs has Buffers, that considers why Emacs makes the buffer concept one of its signal concepts. After all, he says, the natural construct when a programmer thinks of an editor is the … Continue reading →

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Org 9.5.4

Posted on 2022-06-06 by jcs

Yesterday I saw this tweet: Org Mode is a GNU Emacs major mode for keeping notes, authoring documents, computational notebooks, literate programming, maintaining to-do lists, planning projects, and more — in a fast and effective plain text system. #Orgmode 9.5.4, … Continue reading →

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Determining If Emacs Is Running In Terminal Or Gui Mode

Posted on 2022-06-05 by jcs

Even if, like me, you mostly run Emacs in GUI mode, it’s sometimes desirable to invoke a terminal instance. Mostly it doesn’t matter which mode you’re in but there are a few things—font colors, for example—that you may want to … Continue reading →

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Commercial Emacs

Posted on 2022-06-04 by jcs

In a followup to his recent post on Modern Emacs, Bozhidar Batsov has a short offering that talks a little about Commercial Emacs. It’s a fork of GNU Emacs but it’s not the first one. There have been several others, … Continue reading →

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Making Emacs Modern

Posted on 2022-06-02 by jcs

Bozhidar Batsov has a post on one of my favorite hobbyhorses: making Emacs more modern. I’ve written about this several times. See here and here for example. Batsov is not sympathetic either. As Batsov notes, almost all these proposed modernizations … Continue reading →

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Elisp Cheat Sheet

Posted on 2022-05-31 by jcs

Wow! This post from Mickey is something I had no idea about. In Emacs 28, there’s a builtin cheat sheet for Elisp functions. You call shortdoc-display-group and are presented with a list of categories or “groups”. When you choose a … Continue reading →

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Creative Writing With Emacs

Posted on 2022-05-30 by jcs

If you’ve been around Irreal for a while you know that I love reading about how people are using Emacs for non-engineering/scientific purposes such as creative writing. It’s hardly a surprise that creative writers, for example, find Emacs a superb … Continue reading →

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Crazy Mode

Posted on 2022-05-28 by jcs

As a follow on to my discussions of Mickey’s posts about Hippie Expand and abbrev, Mohammed Sadiq has a post on his Crazy Mode project. It’s another completion framework that is aimed at providing efficient shortcuts when you’re coding. Take … Continue reading →

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Emacs, Xwidgets, and macOS

Posted on 2022-05-25 by jcs

As I’ve written many times, the only non-Emacs application that gets any significant use on my computer is Safari. If I could find a way of putting Safari’s functionality into Emacs, I’d be very close to never having to leave … Continue reading →

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Too Many Open Files

Posted on 2022-05-24 by jcs

Ben Simon has a post about a problem that can come up with Emacs running on macOS. The problem is that Emacs will report “too many open files” when attempting to open a file. It turned out to be a … Continue reading →

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