Category Archives: General

Expand Region Reimagined

Posted on 2026-03-04 by jcs

Bozhidar Batsov has been blogging up a storm on recent additions to Emacs that make our editing sessions easier. His latest post is about a successor to expand-region, expreg. Batsov has been a heavy user of expand-region for many years. … Continue reading →

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Visual Wrap Prefix Mode

Posted on 2026-03-03 by jcs

As I wrote yesterday, a lot of really interesting posts popped up all of a sudden and I speculated that I might have to break my rule about not covering items that Sacha has already mentioned. I’m giving myself leave … Continue reading →

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A Diff Preview Of A Regex Replace

Posted on 2026-03-02 by jcs

When it rains, it pours. Sometimes I find it hard to find an interesting topic to write about. Other times, like today, four or five topics pop up. The problem is that today is Sunday and tomorrow Sacha will be … Continue reading →

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Emacs For Game Development

Posted on 2026-03-01 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, alraban tells a nice story about game development with Emacs. The TL;DR is that it’s amazingly good. Alraban isn’t a professional developer but has been a hobbyist since the 80s. He has, several times, tried … Continue reading →

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Harp: A Private Health Records App

Posted on 2026-02-28 by jcs

Abhinav Tushar likes to curate what he calls macro health data. That means things like ailments, aches and pains, and other symptoms one might want to mention to the doctor during an appointment. After researching the currently available apps, he … Continue reading →

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Emacs Internals Part 1

Posted on 2026-02-27 by jcs

Yi-Ping Pan has an interesting post that recapitulates one of my favorite hobby horses: Emacs is actually a modern day Lisp Machine that happens to ship with an embedded editor. Pan kept trying other editors but always returned to Emacs. … Continue reading →

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A Unix/Emacs Blast From The Past

Posted on 2026-02-26 by jcs

Although many of us won’t admit it, we all enjoy a bit of nostalgia. Here’s some from 20 to 25 years ago. Kids today™, they don’t know how good they have it. There’s a tendency to romance the “powerful” workstations … Continue reading →

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Dark Sky Redux

Posted on 2026-02-25 by jcs

I have to admit to being a bit of a weather nerd. Florida, of course, has very active weather—especially in the Summer—so some of my obsession is self preservation but I also follow the weather where family members reside and … Continue reading →

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Elisp Pre-commit Hooks

Posted on 2026-02-24 by jcs

Another short post today but one that some of you may find useful. Over at the Emacs subreddit, James Cherti offers a set of commit hooks for Elisp programmers. There are hooks that check for parenthesis consistency, byte compile to … Continue reading →

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Org 9.8

Posted on 2026-02-23 by jcs

Ihor Radchenko writes to tell us about the release of Org Mode 9.8. It’s a pretty big release as you can see from the Changes file. It’s much too long to list the changes here and, of course, not everyone … Continue reading →

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