Tag Archives: Emacs

Essential Functions

If you’re an Emacs n00b—and despite the ankle biters claiming Emacs is dead, there are a lot of them—İsmail Efe Top has a post that you may find useful. The point of the post is to list some functions that … Continue reading

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A Defense of RSS

As most of you know, I’m a big fan of RSS and use it as my main way of discovering and reading content. It has plenty of detractors but the majority of those are people who are upset that RSS … Continue reading

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Unified Context Switching

James Dyer has a really interesting post on how he used a bit of Elisp to solve one of his workflow problems. He’d recently abandoned his use of save=desktop in favor of recentf. His reasons for switching don’t really matter—although … Continue reading

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Executing All Babel Buffers

Over at the Emacs subreddit, justrajdeep asks an interesting question: If you have several Babel source blocks in an Org document, is there any way to execute all the blocks and get their data with a single command. I often … Continue reading

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Handling Comments When Joining Lines

Tony Zorman has an interesting post on joining lines in the presence of comments. If you’re like me, your first reaction is apt to be, “why should I care about this?” After a second’s thought, though, I realized that joining … Continue reading

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Running Magit In Full Screen Redux

Life goes on and things change. Over 10 years ago, I wrote about a hack to run Magit in full screen mode. The hack—apparently from Magnar Sveen originally—was pretty simple. Here it is: (eval-after-load ‘magit ‘(progn (defadvice magit-status (around magit-fullscreen … Continue reading

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Buffer Specific Commands

Remember the other day when I said I almost always learn something new from Bozhidar Batsov’s posts? I just ran across another example. Batsov informs us that as of Emacs 29, there’s a new command called execute-extended-command-for-buffer (bound to Meta+X) … Continue reading

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Custom Functions In Org Tables

Most Org users know that there are built in functions that can do things like sum some or all of the entries in a row or column of a table. The set of functions is actually much richer than simply … Continue reading

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Yeetube

As I’ve written many times before, the Irreal bunker strives to be Google free. We mainly succeed in that endeavor with the single exception of YouTube. It’s far and away the best in class service of its type and more … Continue reading

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A Bit More On The Silliest Emacs Meme

Last Friday, I offered up a Red Meat Friday post that discussed the silly but depressingly widely held idea that Emacs is dying. As I said in that post, this is not an idea that’s held by anyone who actually … Continue reading

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