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BYOK
My ex-colleague and old friend Watts Martin has an interesting post about BYOK. BYOK is a “writer deck”, a device exclusively for writing that has no distracting apps or even a connection to the Internet. The idea is that writers … Continue reading
Why Use A Word Processor When You Have Org?
Over at And now it’s all this, Dr Drang has a post on using TextEdit versus using Pages. He’s a Mac user, obviously, but that doesn’t matter so much. The real argument is over whether one should use a word … Continue reading
A New Journelly Beta
If you’ve been around Irreal for as little as a year and a half, you know that my most important and most used iOS app is Journelly. I use it as my memo book to record my daily activities and … Continue reading
Ridenour On Literate Calc Mode
Randy Ridenour has taken another step in the journey so many of are on: moving everything inside Emacs. Regular Irreal readers will recall that Ridenour is a Philosophy professor so he doesn’t have much need for high powered math tools … Continue reading
Highlighting The Active Window
Three years ago, I wrote about marking the active window (update here ) so that it’s easy to pick it out from the other, inactive windows. I did that by making the mode line of the active window a distinct … Continue reading
Emacs Turns 50
Over at the MIT Technology Review there’s a nice article on Emacs turning 50 this year. It gives a short history of Emacs starting from its TECO days. Most of that history is pretty well known to seasoned Emacs users … Continue reading
Electric Quote Mode
Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has an interesting post on Unicode punctuation in Emacs. His post is mainly concerned with the vagaries of dealing with English and Polish punctuation in the same document but a lot of the heavy lifting is accomplished … Continue reading
Controlling Where Isearch Starts Searching
Today I learned a new Emacs trick from Emacs Dwelling. Well, new to me. It turns out it’s been in Emacs since 28.1 so for about four and a half years. Here’s the problem. When you call isearch it starts … Continue reading
Analyzing Emacs News
Sacha Chua has a nice post that describes something that I really like: taking some data that she’s collected and analysing it to extract useful information. For some reason I really like that sort of thing and am always doing … Continue reading
Variables In Org Capture
Martin Schell has an excellent post on building and using Org capture templates. What’s interesting about his approach is that his template prompts for certain information—customer ID and site location in his example—captures that information in some local variables, and … Continue reading