Tag Archives: Emacs

I’m not much of an IDE fan but many (most?) people are and want, in particular, to have some LSP integration for their favorite language. Lots of folks are using Python these days either as a quick-and-dirty scripting language or … Continue reading →

It’s Christmas, a day that we at the Irreal Bunker celebrate in large part by being slothful. Therefore, today’s offering is a quickie. On the other hand, since it is Christmas, you can also think of this post as a … Continue reading →

A constant theme here at Irreal is that one of Emacs’ virtues is its programmability. Not the ersatz programmability offered by VS Code or even Vim but real programmability. You can introduce new code or change old code while Emacs … Continue reading →

Marie K. Ekeberg has a holiday gift for Emacs users: a list of 24 Emacs packages that you can try during the holidays. The list is interesting in that it doesn’t really have a theme other than that they’re packages … Continue reading →

Andrea Corallo writes with some good news: Emacs 30.0.93, the third pretest for Emacs 30.1 is now available for download and testing. The developers are hoping that this is the last pretest before the final release procedure begins. This should … Continue reading →

A week ago, I wrote about the recent restoration of the Guile Emacs project. Despite my enthusiasm for the original project, I just couldn’t get excited about its resurrection. You can take a look at that post for my reasons … Continue reading →

Jack Baty has a post that considers the best way of building an Emacs configuration. On the one hand, something like Doom Emacs provides a complete, no-brainer configuration that requires little effort on the part of the user. On the … Continue reading →

There are lots of different types of Emacs users, of course, but two distinct classes are those, like me, who stay pretty much up-to-date and those who are stilling running old versions of Emacs and are not familiar with what … Continue reading →

Every programmer—at least every programmer who actually programs—is familiar with the concept of flow. It’s a well established concept with lots of research to back it up even if some don’t believe in it. The trouble is, there are lots … Continue reading →