Author Archives: jcs

Just a quickie from something that I’ve had in the queue for a while. Chris Maiorana has a short post on relative line numbers. The idea is that the current line—the line you’re on—is considered line 0 and the lines … Continue reading →

Over at DyerDwelling there’s another nice example of using a transient menu to capture the keystrokes for a set of packages. This time it’s for some spelling related packages. The author couldn’t make up his mind on what keystrokes he … Continue reading →

Forward Does anyone know what happened to Emacs Elements? As I was getting ready to publish this post, I notices that the below linked video was gone and that Google said it had been deleted by the author. On further … Continue reading →

Over at the Emacs subreddit, Ok-Machine-6265 is a new(ish) Emacs user who has some thoughts after using Emacs for about a year and a half. His experience has been good. He loves the power that Emacs gives him and lists … Continue reading →

Álvaro Ramírez has a very nice post about improving the edebug dislay. He starts be recalling the now nearly 10 year old post from Artur Malabarba on why you should learn to use edebug, the source level Elisp debugger. He … Continue reading →

Charles Choi is back with a new member of his Casual suite. His Casual suite, in case you don’t know, is a collection of transient based menus to make dealing with Emacs major modes and subsystems easier. Choi’s latest addition … Continue reading →

Icy-Repair8024 says he’s a new Emacs user who started using it believing that Emacs was a “lightweight” editor but upon discovering all its features now believes it’s bloated and wonders if he should give up on it. I have to … Continue reading →

Over at the Emacs subreddit, justsellingmykeeb asks for the best way of moving to the beginning or end of various structures such as regions delimited by some sort of brace or HTML tag. I usually use Ctrl+Meta+f, Ctrl+Meta+b, and, when … Continue reading →

Chris Maiorana has a useful piece of information for all Emacs users. If you’ve used Emacs at all for writing you’re doubtlessly familiar with ispell. I’m a terrible speller and absolutely couldn’t live without it. I have it set up … Continue reading →