Author Archives: jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, jackn3 noticed that a lot of experienced Emacs user describe Emacs as a program that’s fun to use and he wondered if the other redditers felt the same and if so why. The responses to … Continue reading →

Emacs Elements has posted another useful short video. This time it’s about an easy way to use ediff. The first thing he mentions is that you can mark two files in dired and they will be used as the default … Continue reading →

Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) has a new heroic video. Heroic because it undertakes to describe the mechanism for controlling the placement of buffers. That is, where in the display environment should a buffer be displayed. That mechanism is complex so describing … Continue reading →

Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) has posted a nifty video on abbrev-mode. It turns out that there’s a lot more to it than you might have thought. Prot says that you can think of it as a lightweight alternative for yasnippet or … Continue reading →

If you’ve been around Irreal for a while, you know that I’m a hug fan of abo-abo’s Swiper/Ivy/Counsel package. Its minibuffer completion system means that if I can get anywhere near the name of a command I’m trying to run … Continue reading →

Ruslan Bekenev has an interesting post that discusses which-function-mode. I was vaguely familiar with it before I read Bekenev’s post but never thought much about it. Bekenev, however, makes a good case for it. His use case is that he … Continue reading →

Emacs Elements has a very short video on a relatively unknown but extraordinarily useful command: iedit. It does basically the same job as multiple cursors but is builtin and a bit simpler. It’s less powerful than multiple cursors but is … Continue reading →