Monthly Archives: July 2017

This is the second of my two-part post on packages that I find especially useful in my day to day work. I’ve discussed all these packages before but it’s worthwhile bringing them all together as suggestions that others might want … Continue reading →

About 15 months ago, I wrote a post, Some Oldies but Goodies, that talked about some of the packages that I found most useful in my day-to-day work. On rereading that post, I find that it’s aged well in the … Continue reading →

Mickael Kerjean has an interesting series of Emacs tutorials over at his blog. He approaches the tutorials from the point of view of the learning path that he would have liked to follow when he learned Emacs. The tutorials are … Continue reading →

Over at the Emacs Stack Exchange, Jue asks if there’s something equivalent to fill-paragraph for S-expressions. Part of the problem is that paredit redefines Meta+q so fill-paragraph appears not to work. It turns out, though, that there is a command … Continue reading →

Xah Lee has a nice page describing some common configuration settings that you can add to your init.el. It covers such things as how to show line numbers, have sentences end with a single space, and many others (see below). … Continue reading →