Tag Archives: Emacs

Emacs On The Go

It’s Sunday and nobody—especially me—feels like working so here’s a short interlude while we’re waiting for the new week to begin. The subject of today’s post falls in the broad category of what could be called “mobile Emacs”. Most of … Continue reading →

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How To Speed Up Emacs

Over at the Emacs subredit, iinnssdd says he was looking for a guide to speed up Emacs but couldn’t find one. Therefore, he put together his own. This is more than the usual “how to make Emacs load faster” article, … Continue reading →

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Bending Emacs 3: Git Clone

One of the nice things about Emacs is that when you find yourself performing the same set of steps repeatedly, it’s easy to capture those steps into an Emacs function or even a keyboard macro. If you’re like me, you’ll … Continue reading →

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Medicated Emacs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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