Monthly Archives: October 2016

A couple of years ago, I wrote about a nice bit of Elisp from Artur Malabarba that deals with commenting and uncommenting whole line(s). It’s sort of like comment-dwim except that it deals with whole lines. Recently, Malabarba resumed blogging … Continue reading →

Charles-H. Schulz is not a developer—although he is technically proficient. He describes himself as specializing in literature, history and philosophy. He’s also an Emacs user. I find that interesting because I’m always fascinated with how people who aren’t writing code … Continue reading →

The other day I wrote about undo-tree and wished for a video on how to use it. Mike Zamansky came to the rescue with a very nice video expanation of undo-tree. Really, this package is extraordinarily useful and it’s nice … Continue reading →

A new minor annoyance in Emacs 25.1 is that Emacs maintains a variable called package-selected-packages that maintains a list of packages that you have specifically specified. This is used to handle dependencies on package deletion as well as making it … Continue reading →

I like to see all files in my Dired listings but lots of folks have a more minimalist mindset and would prefer not to see certain files. Things like backup files, .DS_STORE (on MacOS), or even all dot files are … Continue reading →

I’ve been using undo-tree for a long time but mostly I just take advantage of it’s (very much improved) redo functionality. The other day, I saw this tweet Or just use M-x undo-tree-visualize to go to anywhere in any of … Continue reading →

If you’re like me and try to stay in Emacs as much as you can, you have probably tried eshell. It’s a nice Emacsy shell (Mickey has an excellent eshell tutorial you should check out) but can sometimes have problems … Continue reading →