Author Archives: jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, tdavey asks if we’re living in the golden age of Emacs. He’s an unlikely person to be asking this question because he’s not a developer or scientist. He is, to use his words, “an ordinary … Continue reading →

In another Vim to Emacs story, LowCom over at the Emacs subreddit offers his take on the transition. It’s interesting because his analysis focuses on how Vim and Emacs differ. He says, as I often have, that you can’t really … Continue reading →

The Emacs Command of the Day Twitter feed tells us something that I didn’t know: Fun fact about the minibuffer: you can click it when it’s inactive! This opens the *Messages* buffer. (Especially handy if you want to read messages … Continue reading →

Here’s another post from Tony Aldon. Sacha already covered it in Emacs News but it’s interesting enough that it deserves another mention. The post is about catch/throw and examples of its use. Aldon starts with some simple made up examples … Continue reading →

Ever since I read Abo-abo’s post on using wgrep to edit multiple files, I’ve been a huge fan of using grep to search for some regular expression in multiple file, write enable the results buffer with wgrep, make changes to … Continue reading →