Author Archives: jcs

Joe Marshall has an X little post on Lisp. I used X because I’m not sure of the correct adjective to use. Maybe “snarky”, maybe “cute”, maybe “enlightening”, maybe “interesting”. The idea of the post is that if you find … Continue reading →

I run Emacs and my browser in full screen and I spend almost all my screen time in those two applications. That presents a (very) small problem: If I want to know the date, I have move the cursor to … Continue reading →

Sven Seebeck has taken inspiration from Charles Choi and implemented a transient to ease one of his frequent operations. That task was playing music with EMMS. His needs, he says, are pretty vanilla. He typically just wants to play an … Continue reading →

A very short quickie today. The ever prolific Nicolas Rougier has another nice snippet for us. It’s a way of enclosing some text in a box. It’s a tiny bit of code but it can produce some very nice output. … Continue reading →

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 →