Tag Archives: Emacs

Compiling Elisp to Native Code

Posted on 2020-05-04 by jcs

Even if you don’t obsess over Emacs like, ahem, some people, you’ve probably heard about the project to compile Elisp to native code. The idea is that the Elisp byte code would be compiled to GCC IR (intermediate representation) code … Continue reading →

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Five Underappreciated Reasons to Appreciate Emacs

Posted on 2020-05-02 by jcs

John Cook is a Mathematician and an Emacs user. He recently posted some thoughts on Emacs that serve as a nice coda to my previous post on the usefulness of Emacs for scientists. If you read that post you know … Continue reading →

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Comments on the Usefulness of Emacs for Scientists

Posted on 2020-05-01 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subredit, gmu_nu says he’s a graduate student in Physics and wonders about the usefulness of Emacs for scientists who aren’t in CS. The resulting comments are an interesting compendium of the ways that scientists make use … Continue reading →

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GNU Global

Posted on 2020-04-29 by jcs

As I’ve said before, I’m not a big fan of TAGS systems for navigating source files They never seemed to do what I needed and I worried about having to keep the TAGS files up to date. All that ceased … Continue reading →

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Using Elfeed

Posted on 2020-04-27 by jcs

Regular readers know that I’m a big fan of Elfeed for reading my RSS feeds from the comfort of Emacs. It has great searching and filtering capabilities so I can even find old, already read entries if I need to. … Continue reading →

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The Org Code Edit Buffer

Posted on 2020-04-26 by jcs

I use the Org-mode code editing buffer all the time either for adding some code to a post or for embedding a tweet or video. When I’m writing a blog post, I always have two windows displayed. On the left … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: The Best Editor

Posted on 2020-04-24 by jcs

Today’s Red Meat Friday offering is from Steve Purcell. It’s his pinned tweet: Emacs is the best editor. https://t.co/9uTyGsSxKo — Steve Purcell 🇪🇺 (@sanityinc) November 30, 2019 To some of us, this is completely obvious but others may find it … Continue reading →

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Learning Emacs With Macros

Posted on 2020-04-22 by jcs

Sahas Subramanian has started a series of Emacs tutorial videos with the novel idea of teaching Emacs through the use of macros. The first video demonstrates the utility of keyboard macros by using them to solve a simple problem. The … Continue reading →

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Fifteen Reasons to Prefer Emacs

Posted on 2020-04-20 by jcs

Dominik Tarnowski gives us 15 reasons to use Emacs and says that VS Code has nothing on Emacs. He’s a Doom Emacs user but everything he says other than the particular keystrokes apply to any flavor. Another possible title for … Continue reading →

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Emacs Is Not An Editor

Posted on 2020-04-19 by jcs

Jordan Besly has a nominally provocative post that claims Emacs is not an editor. Of course, it’s only nominally provocative because what he really means is not merely an editor. It is, as we often say at Irreal, a Lisp … Continue reading →

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