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The Internet’s tireless blogger Sacha Chua has another interesting video chat about Emacs. This time it’s with Avdi Grimm, a well-known Ruby guru and Emacs user. The video is informative and definitely worth 40 minutes of your time so give … Continue reading →

Emacs 24.3 Release Candidate 1 is available for FTP download. If all goes well, the developers expect to release 24.3 in about a week. Consider jumping in to help with the final testing if you can.

After all the heavy breathing about Emacs UI issues recently, here’s a softer, gentler Irreal take on Emacs bling. If, like almost everybody, you’re invoking Emacs from some sort of GUI you’ve undoubtedly seen the Emacs logo. I’ve pretty much … Continue reading →

I just saw a reference to Pallet on reddit. It’s a way of syncing your Emacs packages across several machines. For example, you might, like me, have several machines and want your ELPA configuration to look the same on all … Continue reading →

Over at the Emacs subreddit, MoreHugs is gnashing his teeth and beating his brow over the fact that the Emacs UI is not pretty enough for some users and thus inhibits uptake. Why, he wonders, can’t Emacs have a nice … Continue reading →

There were a lot of good solutions to this challenge. I thought the interesting part would be switching the character entries in the table. If you are just before the first character pair vector, you can do that in 5 … Continue reading →

Nic Ferrier, the creator of elnode and the proprietor of Marmalade, gave an interesting Skills Matter talk on what the coming year will mean for Emacs. The video is about an hour and a quarter so plan appropriately. The talk … Continue reading →