Category Archives: General

Dmitriy Pshonko has an interesting project for those of us who like to (a) stay in Emacs and (b) use the mpv media player. The idea is that you can list your media files with dired and it will tell … Continue reading →

I ran across a post by James Dyer, Dired Duplicate Here Revisited, that was interesting and I thought was worth writing about but I wasn’t sure there was enough there for a post. Then I saw this post by Álvaro … Continue reading →

Charles Choi has another thought provoking post: this time it’s about Emacs defaults. He begins by noting that Emacs exemplifies the idea that you should separate policy and mechanism by providing a mechanism but leaving the actual policy to the … Continue reading →

The Minions aren’t going to like me saying this but I’ve stumbled upon a nice and actually legible dark theme. idlip Dilip has a new, high-contrast theme, Haki, that started with Prot’s modus-vivendi and some of Daniel Mendler’s packages to … Continue reading →

As many of you know, I’m a big fan of Eshell and use it was my main shell. The traditional gripe about it has always been that there’s no manual. John Wiegley, who wrote Eshell, offered to write a manual … Continue reading →

Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) has another great video out. This one is about marks, bookmarks, and registers. You can probably guess from the title that the video is mainly about ways of moving around in a file or files efficiently. He … Continue reading →

Over at Skybert Hacks, Torstein Johansen has a nice video on using Emacs tramp. Although it does sometimes get bad press, Tramp is a gem and a definitely underappreciated feature of Emacs. It also can seem hard to learn—especially when … Continue reading →

Emacs Elements has another useful video on a minimal configuration for vanilla Emacs. This is mainly for the new user, of course, but I was struck by how closely it matched my basic configuration. My current init.el is about 2,500 … Continue reading →

Tuhdo asks a question on the Emacs reddit: How many years have you been using Emacs? On the one hand it seems like the answer should be “who cares?” but I found the answers revealing. Those answers ranged from “about … Continue reading →