Category Archives: General

If you’re like me, every once in a while you need to scan a QR code—or even a bar code. Not often but every once in a while. There are all kinds of apps to do that, especially on our … Continue reading →

Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) has a really interesting video on writing a custom mode line. If you’re like me, your mode line customizations are limited to adding the line and column indicators and using diminish to inhibit displaying various minor modes. … Continue reading →

Eli Zaretskii writes to announce that Emacs 29.1 has been released and is available in the usual places. As usual, I compiled it from source so I don’t know if the prebuilt distributions have been released yet. In any event, … Continue reading →

A couple of years ago Karthik Chikmagalur published a long, dense post on how Avy can do anything. For some reason—I no longer remember why—I never added his post to my blog queue. Recently his comment to my post Emacs … Continue reading →

Another video from Emacs Elements. This time it’s about Eshell configuration. I love Eshell and use it all the time. It’s mostly like a standard Unix shell but there are some surprises. The major surprise, of course, is that you … Continue reading →

Mike Zamansky is back with the fourth video in his Learning Elisp series. In this video, Zamansky begins building some real functions by considering the rot13 utility. Rot13 is a simple function built into Emacs and other utilities mainly as … Continue reading →

Two or three weeks ago in the comments to my post How Many Years Have You Been Using Emacs? I opined that the biggest thing missing from Emacs was a decent threading model. I also admitted that it was a … Continue reading →

Emacs 29 should be officially released soon. Many of you, I know, are already running it. For those that haven’t already taken the plunge, Emacs Elements has a series of three videos that cover the installation and some of the … Continue reading →

Good news from Eli Zaretskii: The first release candidate for Emacs 29.1 is available. This is, of course, the final stage of the prerelease cycle. Zaretskii says that if there are no problems with the release candidate, Emacs 29.1 will … Continue reading →