Tag Archives: Emacs

Regular readers will be familiar with my occasional posts concerning my old pal Watts Martin’s journey into the Emacs event horizon. When he began, he swore that he would not be one of those “everything in Emacs” folks. He still … Continue reading →

Emacs’ shortcuts and their role in RSI are a staple of Emacs commentary. Everyone, it seems, has their own methods for relieving stress on their hands as they use Emacs. Prot, for example, thinks that one-shot modifiers are the answer. … Continue reading →

Charlie Holland has a very interesting post about annotation in place. The idea is to take notes on digital content the same way you would if your were marking up a book or a physical paper. The important thing is … Continue reading →

In my post on Omar Antolín Camarena’s May Emacs Carnival contribution explaining his reasons for using EWW as his default browser, I mentioned that Camarena said that one of the benefits of EWW not supporting JavaScript is that JavaScript is … Continue reading →

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) really likes all the ways you can mark files in Dired but noticed that an easy way to mark recently modified files was missing. He knows quite a bit about writing Elisp so it was an easy … Continue reading →

I see a lot of blog posts recommending EWW. Sometimes I even write about them. The common theme is something along the lines of, “No, you can’t really replace a full-fledged browser with EWW but you can do a lot … Continue reading →

Charlie Holland has an interesting contribution to May’s Emacs Carnival, which this month is on the topic “If I may recommend…” His notion is that Emacs is an effortless bloom. The “effortless” part is because Emacs—contra conventional wisdom—is easy to … Continue reading →

Thanos Apollo has an interesting post about an almost forgotten Emacs battle: the choice between Bazaar and Git as the new version control system for Emacs. Twenty years ago, Emacs was still using CVS, a venerable RCS that was well … Continue reading →