Category Archives: General

Bozhidar Batsov has a post that claims something I’ve often said: Emacs startup time doesn’t matter. No one is saying that your editor taking 30 seconds to start is acceptable but by and large the people you see worrying about … Continue reading →

Like most people, I use setq to set user options in my Emacs configuration. It’s the canonical way of setting a variable in just about any Lisp. But, as Bozhidar Batsov says, it’s not always the best way of setting … Continue reading →

Being a basically boring guy, I almost always have a full screen frame with two side-by-side windows for Emacs. For some functions—Magit and Elfeed are examples—I temporarily pop up a single full frame window but the previous window configuration is … Continue reading →

Yesterday, I explained why I think Journelly will be useful to me. Today, I want to follow up with my initial impressions of the app. As I wrote before, I recently signed up for the Journelly beta and have been … Continue reading →

Over at The Art Of Not Asking Why, JTR suspects that I may be an apostate, or at least that I’m inconsistent. He notes, correctly, that I’m all in on Emacs in general and Org mode in particular, and yet … Continue reading →

I just came across a link to this recently updated book on the plain text computing environment. It was, apparently, first written to describe Emacs 19.29 around 1997. That was a long time ago and Emacs has evolved considerably since … Continue reading →

Here’s yet another post commenting on something that Bozhidar Batsov wrote on Emacs Redux. I like to write about his posts because they typically look at some Emacs functionality that we all thought we knew about and tells us things … Continue reading →

I’ve written a couple of times about Álvaro Ramírez’s Journelly [1, 2] and how it seemed like a good fit for my memo book needs. In the last of those posts, Ramírez announced that he was starting an official beta … Continue reading →