Author Archives: jcs

This is a sort of public service announcement. As many of you know, I consider Ivy/Counsel/Swiper to be one of my most valuable packages. It’s a behind the scenes force in almost everything I do in Emacs. If it disappeared, … Continue reading →

My last Red Meat Friday rant was about the desire for minimal Emacs configurations on the part of some people and how I didn’t understand what they were perusing. Sebastián Monía, a frequent Irreal commenter, has his own take on … Continue reading →

There’s a long simmering debate among hardcore Emacsistas about who what did what in the initial development of Emacs. Most of us know that Emacs began as a curated set of editing macros for the TECO editor. At the MIT … Continue reading →

It’s getting harder and harder to keep up with Charles Choi and his casual-suite. He’s announced yet another app in the suite. This time it’s for bookmarks. Like the other apps in the collection, casual-bookmarks captures all the hard to … Continue reading →

Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) has an excellent video on the fundamentals of the use-package macro. If you’re new to Emacs or are one of the few Emacs users who isn’t constantly tweaking your init.el, use-package is a macro you use in … Continue reading →

Nathan Dawit Chane has an interesting post on his journey from Vim to Emacs. I can relate to it because his journey is eerily similar to mine. Like him, I spent many years as a Vim user and could be … Continue reading →