Tag Archives: Emacs

Extracting Email Addresses

Posted on 2025-01-08 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has a late Christmas present for us but, as they say, better late than never. This particular present is another video in his Using Emacs series. In this video he considers the problem of extracting all email address … Continue reading →

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Shopping Lists With Emacs

Posted on 2025-01-07 by jcs

Kris Carta has a nice post on a problem we all have: handling grocery shopping lists. If you’re single and a geek, this is not a problem. All sorts of solutions suggest themselves. The problem comes when you have a … Continue reading →

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Recognizing Repeated Tasks In The Org Agenda

Posted on 2025-01-06 by jcs

Thanks to Alex Popescu for pointing me to this nice post from Wai Hon about marking repeated tasks in the agenda listing. Why would you want to do that? Han explains it in his post: if you mark a repeated … Continue reading →

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Freewrite Mode

Posted on 2025-01-05 by jcs

As most of you know by now, I have a fascination with how non-technical people use Emacs. I’m particularly interested in how writers use it. Certainly there are some world class writers who use (or used) Emacs: Neal Stephenson and … Continue reading →

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Writing With Doom

Posted on 2025-01-04 by jcs

Recently, some one posted a link to this post about using Emacs for writing. It was written by Mediapthatic in 2022 but still very useful and up to date. It takes the point of view of a book writer but … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Where Should Your Configuration Live?

Posted on 2025-01-03 by jcs

When I started using Emacs, just about everybody stored their configuration in ~/.emacs. Then it seemed as if folks were using ~/.emacs.d/init.el instead. For a long time when I was writing about Emacs configurations I would write something along the … Continue reading →

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Deleting Extraneous Spaces In Emacs

Posted on 2025-01-02 by jcs

Charles Choi has a nice post that reminded me about something I know but never take advantage of: the Emacs cycle-spacing command. As Choi points out, we often find there are additional spaces in our text that we want to … Continue reading →

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Emacs Only Static Blog Site

Posted on 2024-12-31 by jcs

Every Irreal reader who’s paying even a little attention knows that this site is WordPress based. It’s been that way since 2011, and I’m pretty satisfied with it as a blogging platform. Still, it would be nice to have a … Continue reading →

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Switching Bewteen HTML and Text In Mu4e

Posted on 2024-12-29 by jcs

Anyone who’s been reading Irreal for a while knows that I’m a huge fan of Mu/Mu4e for dealing with my email. It has just the right features for my preferred workflow. That includes it’s robust search capabilities that allow me … Continue reading →

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PSA: The GPG/Emacs Interaction Bug Is Fixed

Posted on 2024-12-28 by jcs

I’m probably the last person on earth to know this but the longstanding bug between GPG and Emacs where Emacs could not open a GPG encrypted file has been fixed. Indeed, it was fixed in GPG 2.4.4 back in January. … Continue reading →

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