Tag Archives: Emacs

Sometimes The Current Flows Towards Emacs

Everyday I see several articles from—usually—younger developers opining that Emacs is too old-fashioned, non-intuitive, and, really, just too hard to bother learning. And, it doesn’t look nice like VS Code and other modern editors. Okay, they’re young and don’t know … Continue reading

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Using Emacs For Research Notes

Continuing with our “Emacs for all things” theme of the last couple of days, here’s another post that speaks to how Emacs can be used for many things and how seemingly difficult or even impossible tasks can be done by … Continue reading

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A Followup To Why You Can’t Use Emacs More

One of the odd things about writing Irreal is that I never know which posts will be popular or at least provoke some engagement. Often, posts that I think are really interesting receive no comments and posts that I suspect … Continue reading

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Reasons You Can’t Use Emacs More

Over at The Art Of Not Asking Why, JTR has some nice things to say about Irreal but that’s not what I want to talk about. Rather, I like to address the point of his post, which is how difficult … Continue reading

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Elisp Abstraction

Over at the Emacs subreddit, AbstProcDo proposes an interesting idea: some Elisp constructs are very intuitive and natural compared to other languages. He uses the example of dolist to process a list versus the Python way. (dolist (item ‘(1 2 … Continue reading

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Projectile Caching Improvements

Bozhidar Batsov, the developer of projectile, has announced some updates to its caching behavior. The idea is that a projects files are cached so that they don’t have to be reindexed every time your bring up a project. Projectile has … Continue reading

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Exporting To Word In The Real World

As you all know, I’m a huge fan of Org mode and use it for virtually all the writing I do. One of the powers of Org is that you can export it to many different formats. One of those … Continue reading

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Unloading Emacs Themes

Here at the Irreal bunker, we’re stodgy, like things the way they are, and are not inclined to change things willy-nilly. As far as Emacs is concerned, that manifests itself in the eschewing of themes. The bunker doesn’t really have … Continue reading

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Elisp To Python Cheatsheat

Irreal has often commented on the work of Charles Choi, most recently on his Casual App Suite. Choi has just published a nice cheatsheet for Python programmers who want to write in Elisp. The idea is to compare the various … Continue reading

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Magit 4.3.0

Tarsius (Jonas Bernoulli) has just announced that he’s released Magit 4.3.0. Six months ago, he promised to release a new version every month and this is the sixth such release. Almost everyone loves Magit—there are a few vc holdouts—and considers … Continue reading

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