Tag Archives: Emacs

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Protesilaos Stavrou’s excellent post on triggering an Emacs popup from anywhere in your system. It’s perfect for Org capture and other things you might want to do when you’re in some other … Continue reading →

As every Irreal surely knows, I’m a die hard Emacs user but I was, for a long time, a Vim user and still consider it one of the two best editors. It’s long been my view that Emacs and Vim … Continue reading →

As most of you know, Irreal doesn’t think much of editor-connected bling. We much prefer simple efficiency to flashy accouterments that, in the end, simply get in the way of a decent editing experience. That’s true even though they can, … Continue reading →

Charles Choi has another Casual app on offer. This time it’s a comprehensive set of menus, Casual EditKit, that capture the various editing commands. On the one hand, these are commands that you really need to know to become proficient … Continue reading →

Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) has posted a really nice and useful video on something that I’ve been struggling with off and on for many years. The problem is I often want—usually several times a day—to pop up an Emacs buffer and … Continue reading →

After my last post on ideal Emacs keyboards, here’s a reminder of what reality actually looks like. When I used to see pictures like that, I thought they were amusing but couldn’t really relate. Now my own laptop keyboard is … Continue reading →

If you’re a real Emacs aficionado then you probably think that the ideal—indeed, the only acceptable—keyboard for Emacs is the Space Cadet Keybord. I’m sympathetic to that view and would love to have such a keyboard available to use. Sadly, … Continue reading →

Chris Maiorana has an interesting take on counting words. He’s a writer and like all writers, he’s interested in how many words he’s written in the current session. His reasons for wanting that count boils down to it providing a … Continue reading →