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Highlighting Regular Expressions

Posted on 2024-01-13 by jcs

Charles Choi has another Emacs nugget: how to (persistently) highlight isearch targets. The idea is that you may have a lot of hits for your search and would like to keep them highlighted so that you can examine them in … Continue reading →

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A Slight Isearch Improvement

Posted on 2023-05-17 by jcs

Today’s post is a quick and simple tip from Zachary Kanfer on improving isearch. He likes the way isearch finds its results incrementally but is unhappy with the lack of context concerning the number of results found at each step. … Continue reading →

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Highlighting

Posted on 2022-06-18 by jcs

This week there were two excellent posts on highlighting in Emacs. The first was Marcin Borkowski’s post, Highlighting and de-highlighting things. He covers most of highlighting commands but not their default keybindings. When I first saw Borkowski’s post I thought … Continue reading →

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The iOS Builtin Flight App

Posted on 2022-06-07 by jcs

This post is a bit specialized—to iOS—by Irreal standards but it’s so useful to those who have an iPhone that I’m going to write about it anyway. I’m not sure if this is new or has been in iOS for … Continue reading →

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Tree Sitter and Syntax Highlighting

Posted on 2021-11-27 by jcs

Mickey Petersen author of the the excellent book Mastering Emacs and the blog of the same name has another of his comprehensive and informative articles on his blog. This time it’s about tree sitter and its application to syntax highlighting … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Another One Sees The Light

Posted on 2021-06-11 by jcs

Oh no! Those pesky Minions are at it again and have snuck another Light-mode/Dark-mode post into the queue. This time, MICROIDEATION recounts his journey from avid dark mode fan to the realization that, as Irreal keeps telling you, light mode … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Star Wars and the Light/Dark Controversy

Posted on 2020-05-29 by jcs

The minions at Irreal, it appears, refuse to let the light-mode/dark-mode debate die. Here’s the latest offering: Your choice between light mode and dark mode on your phone clearly dictates whether you’re Jedi or Sith — Shivon Zilis (@shivon) April … Continue reading →

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Dark-Mode vs. Light-Mode Again

Posted on 2020-02-16 by jcs

You’d think this would be dead horse by now but we always have fun with it when I post on the issue so here’s another episode. Via Kontra we have an article by Raluca Budiu on whether light-mode or dark-mode … Continue reading →

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Light-Mode vs. Dark-Mode Again

Posted on 2019-10-31 by jcs

This is my third post on the burning issue of whether light-mode or dark-mode is better and, more importantly, what do we mean by “better”. Given the frequency of my revisiting the matter, you might think it’s something I care … Continue reading →

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Light or Dark

Posted on 2019-06-24 by jcs

I’ve long been a member of the much maligned minority who strongly prefer a light theme for Emacs and, for that matter, everything else too. All the cool kids have dark themes, some even using grotesque combinations like blue on … Continue reading →

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