Category Archives: General

I’m writing this on September 1 so there’s a new theme for the Emacs Carnival. Nonetheless, one final Elevator Pitch showed up in my feed and it seemed worthy of a few words. The post is from Philip Kaluđerčić and … Continue reading →

Álvaro Ramírez had a problem. The SVG header in the buffer of one of his apps was occasionally disappearing. The problem was that he didn’t know where to look for the bug. Then it occurred to him that he could … Continue reading →

The Emacs Cat has an informative post on his Ibuffer Configuration. Although it’s built in, ibuffer isn’t enabled by default so you have to load it with require, use-package, or whatever you use for such things. It’s a nice replacement … Continue reading →

JTR over at The Art Of Not Asking Why has an interesting post on how how he writes instruction manuals. The post was in response to a question from someone on Reddit. As for Org Mode itself, he doesn’t have … Continue reading →

As you can probably tell, I’ve become obsessed with Emacs Elevator Pitch posts. I find them particularly instructive because they require the writer to boil down what they like about Emacs to its essence. The latest offering is from Eric … Continue reading →

Although, as I have said, the Emacs elevator pitch is a difficult challenge, several people have stepped forward to meet it. Eric MacAdie is one of those people and has provided his own contribution. His approach is to offer some … Continue reading →

I really like Gnuplot. It can take a bit of raw data and produce a first class graph in many different formats. There are two problems: It’s command set is truly baroque and hard to learn I don’t use it … Continue reading →