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Ten years ago, Bozhidar Batsov wrote a post entitled Why Emacs. It was a short essay on why he used Emacs, what was good about it, and what its shortcomings were. Ten years later, Batsov, like most of us, is … Continue reading →

We all have our favorite Emacs packages. I’ve written about mine a few times (1, 2, 3). A few packages make almost everyone’s list. There’s Magit and Org-mode, of course. Many people say at least one of those is the … Continue reading →

For those of you who find NEWS files a little bit TL;DR, Bozhidar Batsov has a nice post that discusses the highlights of the Emacs 27.1 release. It’s a good way to see what’s new and important in the release. … Continue reading →

In my continued atonement for failing to produce a year end Emacs review, here’s an offering from Bozhidar Batsov. Batsov has done a lot of interesting work—including Prelude, CIDER, and Projectile—so his take on things is worth noting. Oddly, he … Continue reading →

Continuing with yesterday’s theme of Why I Use Emacs, here is an excellent post by Bozhidar Batsov over at (think) on why he uses Emacs. Anyone who follows the Emacs scene will be familiar with Batsov. He blogs regularly and … Continue reading →

Sacha Chua has posted the latest episode in her Emacs Chats series. This time it’s with Bozhidar Batsov, who, among other things, runs the excellent Emacs Redux blog. Batsov is also the author of the prelude, projectile, and cider packages … Continue reading →

Over at Emacs Redux, Bozhidar Batsov is promising a peek at some of the Emacs 24.4 features. Because he contributed code to the release, he’s followed the development carefully and has been using it exclusively for the last six months … Continue reading →

Bozhidar Batsov, the developer of projectile, has announced some updates to its caching behavior. The idea is that a projects files are cached so that they don’t have to be reindexed every time your bring up a project. Projectile has … Continue reading →

Here at the Irreal bunker, we’re stodgy, like things the way they are, and are not inclined to change things willy-nilly. As far as Emacs is concerned, that manifests itself in the eschewing of themes. The bunker doesn’t really have … Continue reading →

Over at Emacs Redux, Bozhidar Batsov has a nice post on Emacs debugging commands. It’s not the first time that I’ve written about this sort of thing (see here, for instance) but unless you’re actively developing in Elisp, you probably … Continue reading →