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Like most Emacs users, I depend on Melpa to install my packages and keep them up to date. I have a couple of packages from the other repositories but the majority of them come from Melpa. It’s easy to get … Continue reading →

Sacha Chua has held another excellent Emacs chat. This time, it’s with Steve Purcell. I’ve written about Purcell a few times and I’ve certainly stolen a ton of Emacs code from him. He’s got his fingers in an incredible number … Continue reading →

Emacs Elements has another interesting video up. This time it’s about some useful selection commands from from Xah Lee. The first of these is a command to select the current line. I use Steve Purcell’s whole-line-or-region for this and it’s … Continue reading →

I ran across a post by James Dyer, Dired Duplicate Here Revisited, that was interesting and I thought was worth writing about but I wasn’t sure there was enough there for a post. Then I saw this post by Álvaro … Continue reading →

Over at the Emacs subreddit, g_tb has come back to Emacs after trying Neovim, Kate, Helix, and VSCode. None of them met his needs as well as Emacs so he’s back to the one true editor™. Of them all, VSCode … Continue reading →

I’ve said this several times but, really, MELPA is one of Emacs’ great resources. Think for a moment how important it is to your Emacs life and what you would do if it disappeared. How would you replace it? There’s … Continue reading →

From Steve Purcell: More than a quarter of a billion package downloads via @melpa_org to date, wow 🎉 — Steve Purcell (@sanityinc) January 18, 2022 I’ve said this before but it bears repeating: We all owe Purcell our thanks and, … Continue reading →

As regular readers know, I’m a big fan of Melpa and its proprietor Steve Purcell. It’s an extraordinary resource run strictly as a public service. The site is not monetized and yet Purcell devotes huge amounts of time to running … Continue reading →

No. Of course not. The commentary one sees on Emacs is much like that one sees for Apple: This latest [smartphone | editor] is an [iPhone | Emacs] killer. Besides, the iPhone/Emacs is old, tired technology. It’s doomed. And yet, … Continue reading →

Mike Zamansky has added another video to his Using Emacs Series. This time it’s about bufler, a replacement for ibuffer. Mostly when I call up ibuffer, I just want to see a list of my buffers and I don’t care … Continue reading →