Category Archives: General

After the official release of Journelly 1.0, Álvaro Ramírez has not been sitting on his laurels. He has a long list of feature requests from his beta testers and new users and has already released Journelly 1.1 that implements many … Continue reading →

In response to my post on the best emacs keyboards, Paul Jorgensen has a very interesting post of how he leverages software to turn the standard Apple keyboards into Emacs specific keyboards and make them better suited to his needs … Continue reading →

Eli Zaretskii has announced that the first pretest for Emacs 30.2 is now available for testing. That’s great news. It’s nice to see that development is proceeding apace with the planned bug releases between the—more or less—yearly major releases. As … Continue reading →

One of the killer features of Journelly for many of us is that Journelly’s data is stored as Org Mode markup and that this data is easily synced to the iCloud so that it can be shared among all your … Continue reading →

One of the strengths—or weaknesses, depending on your point of view—of Lisp is garbage collection. That means that memory no longer in use is automatically collected and made available to the system without depending on the programmer to release it … Continue reading →

Back before I became an Emacser, a friend who was an Emacser said that I shouldn’t worry about the Emacs keybindings because I could configure them to be whatever I want. I remember thinking that that would be disaster. After … Continue reading →

Over at the Emacs subreddit, surveypoodle asks a perennial question: what are the best keyboards for Emacs? He points out that Emacs pinky seems to have appeared rather late in the editor’s history and speculates that that’s because the keyboards … Continue reading →

Courtesy of JTR from The Art Of Not Asking Why, here’s a handy tip for dealing with window placement when bringing up a Dired buffer. There are two problems. The first doesn’t really concern window placement. Most often JTR wants … Continue reading →