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Over at the Emacs subreddit, Phovox—a 30-year Emacs user—asks what your favorite Emacs utilities are. He’s started using Doom Emacs and has discovered, through Doom, utilities that he didn’t know about. So he’s wondering what else he may have missed … Continue reading →

If you’ve been around Irreal for as little as a few months, you know that I’m a fan of Charles Choi’s “Casual” utilities. They’re all basically the same. They add a transient menu to Emacs utilities such as Calc, Isearch, … Continue reading →

I’m fond of telling stories about folks using Emacs to solve difficult—or at least complicated—problems but Emacs is probably used more often to solve simple, one-off problems. These problems typically don’t require anything fancier than, maybe, keyboard macros. Mario Jason … Continue reading →

Charles Choi is on a roll. He discovered the trick of improving the interfaces to various Emacs functionalities by capturing them in a transient menu. I’ve already written about his considerable contributions to the usability of Calc: my last post … Continue reading →

One of the least appreciated features of Emacs is Calc. At it’s most basic it provides an RPN calculator much like a traditional HP scientific calculator. It’s reasonably easy to learn this functionality but Calc offers much, much more. It … Continue reading →

Susam Pal has a nice reminder on using query-replace-regexp. Most Emacs users know about the command and its binding Ctrl+Meta+% but Pal’s post mentions some less known features that can be very useful. The first—and simplest—is using \& in the … Continue reading →

Michael Neuper has a very nice article on Efficient LaTeX Editing With Emacs. As far as I know, there’s only two reasonable ways of doing that: Org Mode AUCTeX Org mode is good for what might be called “light weight” … Continue reading →

If you’ve been around Emacs long enough to learn some Elisp, you probably know about IELM, the Inferior Emacs Lisp Mode. It provides an Elisp REPL that is often easier to use than evaluating separate Elisp statements. It’s one of … Continue reading →