Author Archives: jcs

CleanPrinciple5, over at the Emacs subreddit, asks an interesting question. He wonders why texinfo isn’t more popular. If you are and always have been an Emacs user, you might find that a reasonable question. On the other hand, if you … Continue reading →

Álvaro Ramírez has a really handy tip for renaming files under version control with wdired. If you don’t already know about wdired, stop whatever you’re doing and find out about it right now. It’s really magical. The TL;DR is that … Continue reading →

The comments to my recent post Emacs And Modal Editing veered off to a discussion of why it’s not really possible to compare Emacs and Vim. Ag ibragimov expressed a point of view that I’ve long held: Emacs and Vim … Continue reading →

Richard Stallman writes to announce that he’s appointed a new Emacs maintainer. Not to worry, Eli Zaretskii is still a maintainer but Andrea Corallo will now be a co-maintainer along with Zaretskii and Stallman. Corallo, of course, is the engineer … Continue reading →

Over at the Emacs subreddit, meedstrom raises an interesting point: why is everyone hating on the Dash library? The short answer appears to be “dependencies”. Using the Dash library increases the number of dependencies and everyone knows that’s bad. The … Continue reading →

Like many of us, James Dyer sometimes has to use Vim even though he’s a dedicated Emacs user. He does this often enough that he’d like to maintain a bit of muscle memory for the Vim navigation commands. He doesn’t … Continue reading →

No, not that Sunrise, Sunset. This one. Today’s post is just a quickie on some already plowed ground. Eight years ago, I wrote about finding the times of sunrise and sunset from within Emacs. I thought it was sort of … Continue reading →

Charles Choi is on a roll. He discovered the trick of improving the interfaces to various Emacs functionalities by capturing them in a transient menu. I’ve already written about his considerable contributions to the usability of Calc: my last post … Continue reading →