Tag Archives: Emacs

Multiple Info Buffers

Posted on 2015-01-02 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork), who’s an occasional commenter here on Irreal, has an interesting post on his info workflow. He likes to have multiple info buffers open at the same time. That may seem a little odd but as Borkowski explains, … Continue reading →

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Using Emacs to Run a Course

Posted on 2015-01-01 by jcs

Via Sacha I found this really interesting post by John Kitchin, whose work Irreal has mentioned many times. In this post, Kitchin writes about how he used Emacs to run a graduate course in Chemical Engineering. Emacs was used to … Continue reading →

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Safely Loading Your Emacs Configuration

Posted on 2014-12-31 by jcs

Over at the Emacs Reddit, tending asks how to fall back to a known good Emacs configuration when initialization gets an error. His complaint is that if there’s an error early in his .emacs file, the initialization is aborted and … Continue reading →

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Using AUCTeX

Posted on 2014-12-30 by jcs

Piotr Kaźmierczak has a nice post on why Emacs is the ultimate LaTeX editor1. The idea is that adding AUCTeX to the greatest editor in the world gives you an incredibly powerful LaTeX environment. Kaźmierczak is a Mathematician so his … Continue reading →

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A New Emacs Blog

Posted on 2014-12-28 by jcs

Oleh Krehel (abo-abo) has a new blog, (or emacs. There’s only a few posts so far but they’re really excellent. For example, his initial post discusses his packaging of ace-window into a library so that other packages can use the … Continue reading →

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Going to the Top and Bottom of iBuffer

Posted on 2014-12-26 by jcs

I use iBuffer a lot. That’s probably because I get a little OCD about stray buffers eating up memory for no reason. With my new 16 GB laptop, buffers eating up memory isn’t much of a problem but it’s too … Continue reading →

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Sorting by IP Addresses 2

Posted on 2014-12-25 by jcs

Yesterday, I told you about my difficulties in trying to sort an Org mode table. I came up with a solution that was, um, less than optimal but at least I got the table sorted. It bugged me that Org … Continue reading →

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Sorting by IP Addresses

Posted on 2014-12-24 by jcs

Recently, I needed to sort an Org mode table by a column having IP addresses. For example, given the table | IP | 11/01 | 11/02 | 11/03 | |—————+——-+——-+——-| | 10.1.213.5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | | … Continue reading →

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PDF Animations

Posted on 2014-12-23 by jcs

Edgar Aroutiounian has a nice post about adding animations to PDF files with Emacs, Org, and LaTeX. If you’re an OS X user, he also explains how to load a minimal TeX distribution rather than the huge MacTeX distribution. The … Continue reading →

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Emacs Function Frequency

Posted on 2014-12-22 by jcs

Xah Lee has an interesting post of the frequency of Emacs functions in the Emacs code base. It’s easy to write such a thing off with a shrug but I found the chart fascinating. The first five most frequently used … Continue reading →

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