Category Archives: General

Back in February I wrote about switching from bash to John Wiegley’s eshell. I’ve been really happy with eshell but have used it pretty much as I would bash. Recently, I saw a tweet that pointed me to this Mastering … Continue reading →

Steven Harms has1 a nice take on the Emacs/Vi holy wars. His idea is that the two sides are actually talking about different things. As we’ve discussed many times here, Emacs is about the ultimate customizable work environment. It provides … Continue reading →

Sometimes I feel lonely. As many of you know, I keep my emacs configuration in a single init.el file1. Almost all the Emacs hackers that I respect have a complicated Emacs configuration split among multiple files. Finally, I’ve found someone … Continue reading →

Xah Lee has posted a nice bit of Elisp that allows you to open the file at point. Of course, Emacs has the ffap command to do that but, as Lee points out, there are a couple of (small) problems … Continue reading →

The folks over at The Emacs subreddit have posted a very nice list of Emacs resources. They’ve got distributions, tutorials, starter kits, blogs, and references. They’re taking suggestions for additions so let them know if they missed anything important to … Continue reading →

Like me, Bozhidar Batsov is always fiddling with his init.el file. As a result, he’s devised a way to open it quickly. He wrote a bit of Elisp to load it and bound the Elisp to the simple key sequence … Continue reading →

One of my favorite Emacs Rocks! videos is #7, Mind Exploded, in which Sveen talks about key-chord mode. Right after I saw the video, I loaded key-chord-mode, wrote about it, and have been using it ever since. I’m mentioning it … Continue reading →