Author Archives: jcs

Over at Lambda Land, Ashton Wiersdorf opines on what he considers the best Emacs packages. You may agree or disagree with any particular choice in his list but it’s hard to argue that his choices are not reasonable. His list … Continue reading →

Charles Choi is back with another of his “Casual” packages. This time it’s for what some of us consider the the dumpster fire that is Info1. His latest offering, Casual Info, provides a porcelain for Info that not only provides … Continue reading →

No, I’m not going to relitigate one of our favorite holy wars. Really, I don’t care very much about the issue. Long ago, I arbitrarily settled on spaces but don’t have strong feelings one way or the other and would … Continue reading →

I’m fond of telling stories about folks using Emacs to solve difficult—or at least complicated—problems but Emacs is probably used more often to solve simple, one-off problems. These problems typically don’t require anything fancier than, maybe, keyboard macros. Mario Jason … Continue reading →

Jack Baty has a very amusing, but true, take on using Emacs and how resisting it is like resisting gravity: in the end you’re gonna lose. His story is that he hates futzing around with things, especially his Emacs configuration, … Continue reading →

Over at the Emacs subreddit, InstinctsInFlow says that he’s a PhD student in computer engineering who has been using Emacs for a couple of years because of its support for VHDL coding. He really likes Emacs and want to find … Continue reading →

I’ve written many, many times about how Avy is one of my favorite packages. Probably 90 per cent of my Emacs navigation is done with Avy. As I’ve said before, you can think of Avy as a generalization Steve Yegge’s … Continue reading →

The “ATC” in the title is Air Traffic Control. You might wonder what Emacs has to do with air traffic control other than some engineer writing code for the system with Emacs. The truth is much stranger and surprising. For … Continue reading →