Tag Archives: Emacs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has a really great post about arranging for certain commands to prompt for verification before executing. Usually, those prompts are simply annoying but sometimes they’re actually useful. For example, you can arrange for Emacs to ask you … Continue reading →

Jonas Bernoulli (Tarsius_) has just announced the release of Magit 4.0. The release, as he says, has been a long time coming: it’s been about 3 years since the last release. It’s great to hear about the new release and … Continue reading →

David Wilson over at System Crafters has an interesting video that explains his system for using tags on his Org tasks. The nice thing about his method is that it’s easy to implement. The hardest part is choosing a list … Continue reading →

Charles Choi has made another update to Casual Calc. This time it’s to provide a more contextual workflow. The idea is that that the Casual Calc menus should reflect the current context. I haven’t yet had a chance to play … Continue reading →

All of us long term Emacs users have our favorite Emacs features. Sometimes it’s something big. For me that would be Org or Ivy/Counsel/Swiper. Other’s would choose Magit, Dired, Elfeed, or Mu4e. In a sense, those are the easy choices. … Continue reading →

Here on Irreal, I often claim that Emacs is best thought of as a light weight Lisp Machine. One of the problems of being a gray beard is that it’s easy to forget that not everyone has your frame of … Continue reading →

It seems de rigueur to complain about Emacs being slow on Windows or even, according to some, on every OS. It’s easy to throw out such aspersions but a lot harder to offer solutions. RobThorpe over at the Emacs subreddit … Continue reading →

This is a sort of public service announcement. As many of you know, I consider Ivy/Counsel/Swiper to be one of my most valuable packages. It’s a behind the scenes force in almost everything I do in Emacs. If it disappeared, … Continue reading →

My last Red Meat Friday rant was about the desire for minimal Emacs configurations on the part of some people and how I didn’t understand what they were perusing. Sebastián Monía, a frequent Irreal commenter, has his own take on … Continue reading →