Tag Archives: Emacs

I always update my Emacs packages on Sunday. I’ve found that upgrading once a week is more than enough and helps limit the ever-increasing entropy here at Irreal. This past Sunday, I noticed that there was a new Org-mode in … Continue reading →

One of the most constant complaints about Emacs is its reliance on finger mangling key chords forever memorialized by the “Escape-Meta-Alt-Control-Shift” backronym. Indeed, many Emacs users, including some Irreal regulars, use one of the vi emulation packages, evil, Spacemacs, or … Continue reading →

Kasim Tuman has a nice blog post entitled Why Emacs in which he discusses why he likes Emacs and his strategy for getting the most out of it. His viewpoint is interesting and worth reading. Tuman thinks of Emacs as … Continue reading →

I’ve often written about how powerful and useful Emacs calc can be1. It is, I think, one of the most underrated features of Emacs. It’s a bit hard to learn, not because its default data entry mode is RPN but … Continue reading →

I didn’t feel much like working on an Irreal post today so I procrastinated by surfing over to Lifehacker and wasting some time there. Besides the sometimes helpful tips on handling some of life’s chores, they have a section called … Continue reading →

I have been using Emacs for over 10 years and I have never meet another Emacs user. (and I work in tech) https://t.co/UuRrK8JTWb #Emacs — Emacs BOT (@emacsbot) July 29, 2019 The few, the proud, The Emacs Users!

The other day, I saw a tweet pointing at a post from 2013 by Chris Done. It was sort of interesting so I added it to my blog queue. Since then, I’ve seen several more tweets mentioning it so perhaps … Continue reading →

Adrien Brochard gave an excellent talk to the New York Emacs Meetup in which he demonstrates how to build an Emacs major mode to improve a workflow. Brochard is working with Kubernetes and would like a way to look at—or … Continue reading →