Category Archives: General

Yann Esposito has an interesting take on choosing tools and the choice between VS Code and Emacs. His post is from a couple of years ago but has aged well. He reminds us of a Microsoft strategy that we all … Continue reading →

Over at EINVAL, Wojciech Siewierski considers multiple cursors (in Emacs) and whether it’s suboptimal. His post is entitled Multiple cursors considered… suboptimal, which seems rather provocative but the post is actually very even handed and concludes, as you’d expect, that … Continue reading →

I’ve written previously about the PhD workflows of Gilles Castel and Sam Wallace. They’re Emacs based and highly efficient. Now, Tony Zorman has published his own PhD workflow. It’s also Emacs based and has several interesting wrinkles. The most salient … Continue reading →

Over at the Emacs subreddit, tdavey asks if we’re living in the golden age of Emacs. He’s an unlikely person to be asking this question because he’s not a developer or scientist. He is, to use his words, “an ordinary … Continue reading →

In another Vim to Emacs story, LowCom over at the Emacs subreddit offers his take on the transition. It’s interesting because his analysis focuses on how Vim and Emacs differ. He says, as I often have, that you can’t really … Continue reading →