Tag Archives: RMF

Red Meat Friday: Transparent Windows: Just Say No

Posted on 2024-02-02 by jcs

As you all know, the Minions are in a never ending death match with dark Emacs themes. To them, there is no worse UI choice. I submit, though, that they haven’t considered all the possibilities and that there are, in … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Chrome Atrocities

Posted on 2023-12-08 by jcs

Metanote: I wasn’t sure if this post really merited being designated a Red Meat Friday item but it is polemical and will doubtless anger some people so I guess it qualifies. As most of you know, we here at Irreal … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: You Don’t Need A Terminal Emulator

Posted on 2023-11-03 by jcs

Andrey Listopadov has an interesting post that advances the notion that you don’t need a terminal emulator. To developers, that’s already an idea worthy of being included as a Red Meat Friday offering but the real reason this is a … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: A Case For Journalists

Posted on 2023-09-29 by jcs

In a previous Red Meat Friday post, Irreal pondered whether politicians or journalists are the least respectable profession. It’s still an open question and while most people would probably declare politicians the winners, John Gruber has a post that provides … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Avoid Evil Mode

Posted on 2023-09-15 by jcs

AltcoinShill has a silly but provocative post on why you should not use Evil mode. The TL;DR is that the default Emacs keybinding are essentially a pinky finger muscle building exercise and that the reason those keybindings were chosen was … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Politicians and Mathematics

Posted on 2023-09-08 by jcs

Irreal doesn’t do politics but it’s no secret that we hold politicians in low esteem. It’s always a battle between politicians and journalists for the rank of the least respectable profession. I was reminded of all this by an article … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Emacs vs. Vi

Posted on 2023-08-25 by jcs

It’s a slow Friday here at Irreal so today’s offering barely qualifies as red meat but you may find it amusing. Someone posted this link to A Comparitive Study of VI and EMACS from the perspective of novice and regular … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Why Vim?

Posted on 2023-08-18 by jcs

This is Irreal rising in defense of Vim. That may seem strange for an Emacs-centric blog but I’ve always said Vim and Emacs are the two best editors and which one you choose depends on whether you want a lightweight, … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Learning The Emacs Way

Posted on 2023-08-11 by jcs

It’s easy to be annoyed at N00bs who complain that it’s sooo hard to configure Emacs into a state useful for working with X. Sometimes, a new user will, like domsch1988, try and fail repeatedly to bend Emacs into a … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Better Emacs Keybindings

Posted on 2023-07-21 by jcs

OutOfCharm has a question. He wants to know how would you improve the Emacs keybindings if you could make any changes you wanted. The question is an honest one. He doesn’t like the current bindings and wants something he feels … Continue reading →

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