Tag Archives: Emacs

The other day, in response to my The Power Of Elfeed post, René Trappel wrote to me offline about his Elfeed package that enables content search. He calls his package “Cuckoo Search” for reasons you can discover at his Github … Continue reading →

For a very long time I’ve been using swiper-isearch in place of the default isearch because I like the way it lists the results in the minibuffer, lets you scroll through them, and pick the result you want On the … Continue reading →

As you all know, I’m fascinated by non-technical people who use Emacs. You probably also know that I have profound dislike of Google and especially their Docs suite, which brings together everything we hate about Word with surveillance and censorship. … Continue reading →

Lars Ingebrigtsen has an interesting post on his EWP his package for publishing blog posts to WordPress. I’m a long term Org2blog user and really like it but, sadly, my host provider, that I’ve been with for many years, no … Continue reading →

I’ve written many times how I was a Vi/Vim user for many, many years. I think that I’m just now coming up to the point that I have more time with Emacs than I did with Vi/Vim. Most of my … Continue reading →

A few days ago I wrote about my need for something better than the Apple Notes app for my memo book. I’ve been using Notes for 10 years and it works well but I’d like something that takes care of … Continue reading →

Charles Choi is back with another app in his causal suite. This time it’s about making it easier to work with the Make utility. For reasons that I don’t understand, lots of people hate make and complain, in particular, about … Continue reading →

If you’re an Irreal regular, you’ve probably guessed that I’m a fan of Charles Choi and his work. He even got me to change my mind about using proportional text for writing blogs—an idea I was initially resistant to—and marginally … Continue reading →

Yesterday’s Red Meat Friday post on Why Lisp “Lost” has a backstory. As I often do, I wrote it the night before and had it queued up for publication on Friday. But I also like to read through the posts … Continue reading →