Tag Archives: Emacs

Medicated Emacs

Posted on 2025-10-14 by jcs

If you’ve been around Irreal for a while you know that we here in the Irreal bunker have never felt the need for a starter kit. A lot of that is probably due to the fact that they weren’t generally … Continue reading →

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RSS Readers

Posted on 2025-10-12 by jcs

Following up on my recent posts about RSS [1, 2] here’s an article on everything (and probably more) that you ever wanted to know about RSS readers. It turns out that there’s all sorts of readers: paid, hosted, self hosted, … Continue reading →

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Using Eshell To Output To A Buffer

Posted on 2025-10-11 by jcs

As many of you know, your can output to a buffer directly from within Eshell by redirecting the output to a #<buffer …> structure like this Welcome to the Emacs shell ~/org/blog $ echo “Hello World!” > #<buffer hello-buffer> That … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Emacs Startup Time Again

Posted on 2025-10-10 by jcs

I’ve come realize that, sadly, I’m addicted to posts about Emacs startup time. Every healthy person knows that Emacs startup time doesn’t matter. That’s because, of course, experienced Emacs users seldom restart their editor. They just leave it running all … Continue reading →

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Bending Emacs – Episode 2

Posted on 2025-10-09 by jcs

Álvaro Ramírez is back with the second video in his new series. This video is about making some simple UI adjustments to Emacs to bend it into looking and acting in a way meets your needs. That doesn’t sound too … Continue reading →

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Why RSS Is The Right Thing

Posted on 2025-10-08 by jcs

Tom Burkert has a nice post in which he extols the virtues of RSS. You might wonder what there is to extol. RSS is a simple protocol—the “simple” is in its name, after all—and it’s pretty easy to implement. That … Continue reading →

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Printf Style Debugging Of Elisp

Posted on 2025-10-07 by jcs

All the cool kids use debuggers for debugging their code. In most situations that’s the right answer. After all, you can set breakpoints, step through your code, and examine values at each step. If you want a detailed view into … Continue reading →

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Capturing Fleeting iOS Notes Org Mode

Posted on 2025-10-06 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, ValuableBuffalo is looking for a way of taking what he describes as “fleeting notes” on his iPhone and capturing them to an Org file in his Git repository. As soon as I saw that, I … Continue reading →

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Ashton Wiersdorf On Organizing Papers For Research

Posted on 2025-10-04 by jcs

Ashton Wiersdorf has a nice post on how he organizes papers, notes, and citations for his research. Of course, Emacs is at the center of that process and it’s another aspect of Emacs use that fascinates me. A couple of … Continue reading →

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Blogging With Emacs

Posted on 2025-10-03 by jcs

Chris over at Entropic Thoughts has some thoughts on blogging and Emacs. He’s conflicted. On the one hand, he yearns for a simple, static blog generator that he can understand. On the other hand, he uses Org Babel a lot … Continue reading →

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