Tag Archives: Emacs

Flyover

Note: Sorry, I got caught up with life and completely forgot to publish this this morning. If you’re a Flycheck or Flymake user and like eye candy, you might enjoy this new package from Mikael Konradsson. It’s a nice looking … Continue reading

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Resetting All Checkboxes In An Org Buffer

Marcin Borkowski (Mbork) has a problem that many of we Org users have: He likes to use checkbox lists to organize tasks to ensure that he doesn’t forget any steps. An example that will resonate with most of us is … Continue reading

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Writing With Emacs #1

Greg Newman has another episode of Emacs Carnival going this month. This time it’s about using Emacs for writing. That’s a subject I’m very interested in so I’ve been looking forward to this episode’s contributions. The first is from Erik … Continue reading

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Speeding Up Magit On macOS

If you’re using Magit on macOS, here’s a tip that will either improve your life considerably or not affect you at all. The tip is from Greg Newman who says that it reduced his commit time from about 4 seconds … Continue reading

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Simply Annotate

James Dyer has announced a new package called Simply Annotate. It is, as the name suggests, a package to make annotations to a file with the feature that the original file is not modified. There are, of course, as Dyer … Continue reading

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Emacs Users: How Are Your Hands?

Over at the Emacs subreddit, SecretTraining4082 asks long term vanilla Emacs users how their hands are holding up. You’d be forgiven if you think the answer is “terrible”. After all, it’s received wisdom that Emacs’ default key bindings are particularly … Continue reading

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Emacs Second Try

After yesterdays post about Charles Choi’s second take on Eshell, I discovered that Choi’s post was part of a collection by Christian Tietze on a second take on various Emacs topics. Tietze himself had a post on Emacs on Second … Continue reading

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Charles Choi’s Second Take On Eshell

If you’re a regular Irreal reader, you’ll be familiar with Charles Choi. He often has useful takes on Emacs matters and, of course, he’s the author of the excellent Casual Suite that helps you use all the arcane features of … Continue reading

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A Journey To Vanilla Emacs

There are many, many posts on Irreal about the journey that people make from the hinterlands to Emacs. This post is about the journey from uber-distributions like Spacemacs and Doom to plain old vanilla Emacs. Irreal doesn’t hold any position, … Continue reading

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Fold And Focus Comes To Markdown

Flandrew likes Org mode but he wanted to improve his workflow with it a bit. So he wrote some code that he called Fold and Focus—Focused Navigation. The idea was that when in Org mode a single key would move … Continue reading

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