Tag Archives: Emacs

If you’re looking for an introduction to The Way of Emacs, there’s a long article that explores the Emacs way and why it’s worthwhile embracing despite what seems, at first, to be a formidable learning curve. There are a couple … Continue reading →

Chewxy had a need to annotate a text file. He wanted to mark a rectangle of text, capture a classification type, and write the results to a JSON file. He thought about writing a Web app to do it but … Continue reading →

As you all know—at least if you’ve been around Irreal for a while—I like reading through other peoples Emacs configurations. It’s not just a matter of voyeurism; I almost always learn something from seeing how others use Emacs. The latest … Continue reading →

Here are a couple of mini-tutorials on using two Emacs packages. They’re both pretty short so I’ve combined them into a single post. In the first, Yuri Tricys presents some configurations and packages to customize Olivetti-mode. He shows how to … Continue reading →

Protesilaos Stavrou has a new video out on the Emacs bookmarks system. If you don’t use bookmarks, you should give them a try. They’re really handy for files you use often but don’t want to keep loaded all the time. … Continue reading →

Timo Geusch has a nice quickie post on setting multiple minor modes for a buffer. Often it’s convenient to have several minor modes associated with a buffer. For example, when I’m writing blog or prose text I like to have … Continue reading →

Yuan Fu likes to take notes in which he can embed images. You can do that with Org, of course, but Fu doesn’t like that Org’s solution boils down to a link to a file. That means you have to … Continue reading →

Recently a post by jao, who’s written a whole bunch of excellent software, popped up in my feed inbox. It’s just a very short (15 words) mention of apropos-library, a function that lists all the variables and functions in a … Continue reading →