Tag Archives: RMF

AltcoinShill has a silly but provocative post on why you should not use Evil mode. The TL;DR is that the default Emacs keybinding are essentially a pinky finger muscle building exercise and that the reason those keybindings were chosen was … Continue reading →

It’s a slow Friday here at Irreal so today’s offering barely qualifies as red meat but you may find it amusing. Someone posted this link to A Comparitive Study of VI and EMACS from the perspective of novice and regular … Continue reading →

It’s easy to be annoyed at N00bs who complain that it’s sooo hard to configure Emacs into a state useful for working with X. Sometimes, a new user will, like domsch1988, try and fail repeatedly to bend Emacs into a … Continue reading →

OutOfCharm has a question. He wants to know how would you improve the Emacs keybindings if you could make any changes you wanted. The question is an honest one. He doesn’t like the current bindings and wants something he feels … Continue reading →

You can talk about your Vi versus Emacs, spaces versus tabs, or any of the other religious wars that infect tech but none are so widespread as the proper number of spaces at the end of a sentence. I’ve seen … Continue reading →

lf_araujo has a question: How to fix too dark R session colors in ESS (right pane)? by u/lf_araujo in emacs You know what the Minions would say.

Who knew? It turns out the XEmacs is still a thing. Although until now there’s been no releases since 2013, they have a new Beta release. It’s reasonable to take the position of “Who cares?” but I think it’s always … Continue reading →

A conversation with a typical Emacs user: Interview with an Emacs Enthusiast in 2033 [Colorized] by u/miversen33 in emacs What makes this so funny is that every outrageous statement the protagonist makes is something that we’d agree with. Sort of. … Continue reading →