Author Archives: jcs

Susam Pal has an excellent post on sorting text in Emacs. Most experienced Emacers have probably seen most of the methods he talks about but unless you use them all the time, it’s easy to forget them. This post is … Continue reading →

Many—probably most—of you have upgraded to Emacs 29.1 by now. If you’re like me you have a basic idea of what’s changed but don’t wait to read the NEWS file before installing the update. Who can blame us? It’s long … Continue reading →

There was a time when I had a rudimentary proficiency with SQL. I could make updates and rudimentary queries but those days are gone. I haven’t had the need to interact with an SQL database for several years so what … Continue reading →

The other day I wrote about Protesilaos Stavrou’s video on customization the Emacs mode line. James Dyer saw the video too was inspired to make his own customizations. There’s nothing unusual about that, of course, but I was struck by … Continue reading →

Mike Zamansky has posted the 6th episode of his Learning Elisp video series. Again, he has split the content into two videos (9 minutes, 4 seconds and 11 minutes, 22 seconds) so as not to have a single overly long … Continue reading →

Emacs 29.1 was just released and most of us are still exploring it’s new features. But time and tide wait for no man and neither, apparently, does Emacs so of course work is already underway on Emacs 30. It seems … Continue reading →

Emacs 29 has just been released and as I always do, I thanked the developers who worked so hard to bring it to us. Eli Zaretskii and a handful of others do much of the heavy lifting but there are … Continue reading →

I just ran across a post from the estimable Howard Abrams on using Emacs as a window manager. There are two dates on the post, 2015-01-12 and 2023-01-11, so I’m not sure of its birthdate but either way the post … Continue reading →