Category Archives: General

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 →

Those of you who watched Nic Ferrier’s video on the difference between lexical and dynamic scope that I wrote about the other day may have noticed that his buffers indicated whether the buffer had lexical (LEX) or dynamic (DYN) scope. … Continue reading →

I’ve written about Emacs Redux a couple of times before. Bozhidar Batsov continues to post a panoply of really useful Emacs tips. Consider this a reminder to subscribe if you haven’t already. If you’re looking for a turnkey Emacs configuration, … Continue reading →