Category Archives: General

Note: As I was preparing tomorrow’s post, I noticed that I forgot to publish today’s. Sorry. Here it is, better late than never. Over at Meta Redux, Bozhidar Batsov has announced the release of Flycheck 36. It has, he says, … Continue reading →

The fates are still punishing me for leaving home for travel. Today I had two errands to run: Renew a driver license Return an unused TV set top box to my provider The DMV is, of course, a red flag … Continue reading →

The standard advice people get when they complain about some bug or difficulty with Emacs is to restart it with -q or -Q to see if the problem persists. The problem with that advice is that the difficulty may be … Continue reading →

Last week I wrote about Álvaro Ramírez’s new Winpulse package. The purpose of the package is to flash the window receiving focus when you use the other-window command. I wrote that I chose a different solution—changing the color of the … Continue reading →

Speaking of things that don’t matter at all , over at the Emacs reddit, reddit_enjoyer_47 wants to know how big our init.el files are. Despite my dismissal of the question as of no importance, it turns out that the answers … Continue reading →

Last week, I wrote about Theena Kumaragurunathan’s post on writing Science Fiction with Emacs and how Emacs was the inspiration for the brain computer interface in his latest SF novel. In a followup post, Kumaragurunathan discusses the philosophical and design … Continue reading →

Bozhidar Batsov has announced the release of the first version of Neocaml, an Emacs major mode for OCaml. Batsov is a big fan of OCaml but wasn’t happy with the existing Emacs major modes for it. So, of course, he … Continue reading →