Tag Archives: Emacs

Guile Emacs: What’s Old Is New Again

Posted on 2024-12-11 by jcs

I remember that a long time ago I was excited about the Guile Emacs project. It’s aim was to replace Elisp with Guile Scheme while maintaining comparability by making Scheme grok Elisp. To be honest, I can no longer recall … Continue reading →

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Customizing The Emacs Startup Screen

Posted on 2024-12-09 by jcs

The Emacs Cat has another interesting post. This time it’s about customizing the Emacs startup screen. He wants to see something useful when Emacs starts up. In particular, he’d like to see A calendar His agenda His diary A random … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Emacs Use == Skills

Posted on 2024-12-06 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, Thick_Rest7609 says that he associates Emacs use with skill. In particular, he says that he’s inclined to presume presentations using Emacs are representative of a skilled user, whereas a presentation using VS Code is not. … Continue reading →

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Reading Email With Emacs

Posted on 2024-12-05 by jcs

As most of you know, we here at the Irreal bunker try to use Emacs for as much as we can. That includes, of course, email. I use the excellent mu4e for that and communicate with my email provider with … Continue reading →

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Charles Choi At EmacsConf 2024

Posted on 2024-12-04 by jcs

If, like me, you’re a Charles Choi fan and like his Casual App Suite, you’ll be happy to know that he’s giving a talk at EmacsConf 2024. His talk is prerecorded but he will be available to answer questions and … Continue reading →

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Some Useful Editing Functions

Posted on 2024-12-03 by jcs

In my recent post, Some Configuration To Solve Common Problems, I got a bit of pushback from GB who said some of the configuration was outdated. That’s true but does it really make much difference? The Emacs Cat has a … Continue reading →

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Shrinking And Widening Org Table Columns

Posted on 2024-11-30 by jcs

Just a quickie today because I’m still recovering from the Thanksgiving festivities. The Irreal bunker sealed the doors and refused to venture outside on Black Friday, a day in which many stores have stupendous sales resulting in unhinged behavior on … Continue reading →

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Casual Calendar

Posted on 2024-11-28 by jcs

Charles Choi is back with another app in his great set of Casual packages. This time it’s to provide a menu interface to the calendar/diary functions in Emacs. I don’t use either of these functionalities directly because it’s hard to … Continue reading →

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Digital Vs. Analog Notes Redux

Posted on 2024-11-26 by jcs

My post on Digital Vs. Analog Notes got some excellent comments as well as a followup post from JTR on his site. JTR mostly agrees with what I wrote but I did get some pushback in the comments on Irreal. … Continue reading →

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Plugins Again

Posted on 2024-11-23 by jcs

I thought we had settled this once and for all but apparently not. Over at the Emacs subreddit, sudhirkhanger asks about VS Code’s extension system as compared to Emacs’. He’s “blown away” at how great the VS Code plugin system … Continue reading →

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