Monthly Archives: September 2018

This is an update on my post concerning the Emacs GUI not working on the macOS Majave update. There’s lots of useful information in the comments to that post so you should read those if you’re a Mac Emacs user … Continue reading →

I must admit that I seldom use file local variables. Mostly that’s because I have a standard default configuration for each file type but it’s also because I can never remember the exact format. That’s just silly, of course, because … Continue reading →

Over on the Emacs subreddit, freetonik has an interesting tip for Emacs users. The idea is to have several frames each dedicated to a particular function. It made me think of Xah Lee because he likes to work (mostly) with … Continue reading →

As all the Apple faithful know by now, Apple released the latest version of macOS on Monday. I was literally minutes away from starting the upgrade when I stumbled upon a tweet that indicated a problem with Emacs and Mojave: … Continue reading →

I came across this tip on reddit the other day. It’s probably not something you’ll use every day but it can come in handy when you have a lot of processes in your list-processes output and want to kill a … Continue reading →

I’ve been using Emacs for over a decade and like all of us, I’m still learning things I didn’t know about it. Still, this really surprised me. Sure, maybe I don’t know about some obscure command or key binding but … Continue reading →

There’s a certain type of writer—mostly prose writers, I’d guess, but others too—who don’t want to be distracted by extraneous information from their editor. They don’t want to see the name of the file they’re editing, what line they’re on, … Continue reading →