Tag Archives: Emacs

Using Org-capture With Org-drill

Posted on 2021-05-04 by jcs

I saw a pointer to this New York Emacs Meetup talk from 2016. It’s about how Josh Moller-Mara uses org-drill and org-capture together to learn Chinese. Most of us don’t need to learn Chinese, of course, but we all do … Continue reading →

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Paper on Native Compilation

Posted on 2021-05-03 by jcs

If you’ve been following the Emacs native compilation effort and are curious about the technical details, Andrea Corallo, Luca Nassi, and Nicola Mancahave have an arXiv paper that describes Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code. The paper does a good … Continue reading →

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Three Useful Emacs Packages

Posted on 2021-05-02 by jcs

Emacs-Elements has a short video that describes three useful packages that save various pieces of Emacs state. The three packages are: real-auto-save persistent-scratch session The first, real-auto-save, saves the file you’re working on when Emacs is idle for a configurable … Continue reading →

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Marks and Regions

Posted on 2021-05-01 by jcs

David Wilson has a new video out on efficient text selection in Emacs. You can’t really understand text selection in Emacs without understanding the mark. The basic fact is that the currently selected text—the region in Emacs lingo—is the collection … Continue reading →

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Bastien on Using TODO Lists Efficiently

Posted on 2021-04-28 by jcs

Bastien Guerry, longtime maintainer and advocate for Org-mode, has a few thoughts on using TODO list efficiently. His thoughts are distilled from 15 years of using Org to keep his TODO list and schedule his tasks. The chief challenge, he … Continue reading →

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Two Quickies

Posted on 2021-04-26 by jcs

Ten Years At This Location Irreal will be 12 years old in July but 10 years ago today I published my first post at irreal.org. Before that, Irreal was hosted at Blogger and I posted sporadically at best. Once the … Continue reading →

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Multiple Help Buffers

Posted on 2021-04-25 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) posted a potentially helpful tip on multiple help buffers. I say “potentially helpful” because his use case is pretty niche and it’s hard to think of others that are essentially different. Regardless, If you need multiple help … Continue reading →

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Native Compilation Will Probably Be Merged This Weekend

Posted on 2021-04-23 by jcs

Eli Zaretskii writes that absent the discovery of any last minute blockers, native compilation will be merged into master this weekend. A problem with symlinks prevented the merging last weekend. At this point there are no more issues known so … Continue reading →

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Fifteen Days with Dired

Posted on 2021-04-22 by jcs

Ramit Mittal is a new Spacemacs user who decided that for 15 days he would use Dired for all his file operations. That’s not hard to do. I don’t always use Dired but it’s usually easier than bringing up or … Continue reading →

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Switching to Emacs

Posted on 2021-04-20 by jcs

Protesilaos Stavrou has an interesting video that boils down to a lecture on the morality of free software in general and Emacs in particular. He frames the lecture in terms of his journey from a complete computer neophyte to the … Continue reading →

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