Author Archives: jcs

Brian Zwahr uses ansi-term in Emacs for his shell work but found that there were a few things about it that he didn’t like. Being Emacs, those things were pretty easy to fix and he posted about his fixes. He … Continue reading →

Austin Walker recently gave a talk at the Boston Emacs Meetup on using John Wiegley’s ledger program. Happily, there’s a video of the talk so we can all enjoy it. Ledger is a command line program but, of course, there’s … Continue reading →

For some workflows, especially those centered around the terminal, it makes sense to run Emacs as a server so that you can use emacsclient to quickly pop up an Emacs frame. I mostly just have a GUI instance of Emacs … Continue reading →

Mbork has posted a sequel to his highlighting post that I wrote about before. This time he discusses iedit. Mbork says you can think of it as Hi Lock mode with the added capability of editing all the highlighted entries … Continue reading →

Sean Irby has posted his thoughts on why you should be using helm. Irby argues that helm not only makes navigating the Emacs UI easier but also assists in learning Emacs in much the same way that spelling correctors help … Continue reading →

Mbork has another nice post on some of the lessor known corners of Emacs. This time it’s about highlighting words in a buffer. There are lots of ways of doing that, of course, but they have subtle differences that make … Continue reading →