Category Archives: General

Around a month ago, I wrote about Charles Choi’s post on Tuning Emacs to Write Prose in Org and Markdown. One of his suggestions was to use proportional fonts when you’re writing prose. He claimed it’s easier to read and … Continue reading →

I’ve never been a fan of Emacs starter packages. That’s probably because when I started, there weren’t any: you simply rolled your own configuration using whatever resources you could find. Still, there’s something to be said for a minimal configuration … Continue reading →

Just a quickie today. Emacs Elements has a YouTube short in which he offers an Emacs tip on adding newlines to the bottom of a buffer. The idea is that you can configure Emacs so that when you type Ctrl+n … Continue reading →

Over at LWN.net, Jake Edge has a book review of Mickey Peterson’s excellent Mastering Emacs. Edge is a long time Emacs user who never got around to really mastering the editor. Through a long process starting with a fascination with … Continue reading →

Christian Tietze has a, for me, provocative post on the Emacs 29.1 kill-buffer prompt. I am a stickler for accuracy and consistency: just ask my family that has to endure my rants about inconsistencies between episodes of TV series. Tietze … Continue reading →

Over at the Emacs Elements Channel there’s an excellent video on Hippie Expand, The main problem with Hippie Expand is its name. It gives you no clue as to what it does or why you might want to use it. … Continue reading →

After watching and writing about Prot’s video on custom mode lines I’ve been experiencing a vague urge to customize my own. Adding to that urge has been a couple of posts by James Dyer who has also felt the urge. … Continue reading →

Álvaro Ramírez has extended his extensions to the Emacs 29 Sqlite mode. I no longer have to interact with SQL databases for work but these days seemingly every application uses an sqlite database. Why not? Sqlite databases don’t require a … Continue reading →