Monthly Archives: December 2022

Tony Aldon has a nice follow on to his video on regular expression string replacement. In that first video, he mentioned the visual-regexp package as a way of building a regular expression interactively. At the time, I thought that it … Continue reading →

Torstein Johansen has an interesting post on his new Emacs configuration. He’s a long time Emacs user and his old configuration was 20 years old and 1617 lines long. After he refactored his configuration it was down to 368 lines. … Continue reading →

Tony Aldon has a short video on a couple of alternate ways to do regex search and replace in Emacs. The straightforward way to do that is to use query-replace-regexp (Ctrl+Meta+%) but you can do the same operation in steps … Continue reading →

Here’s a blast from the past that I recently came across again. It’s Xah Lee’s post on Why Emacs Keys are Painful. Lee, as most of you probably know, is obsessed with keyboard ergonomics and it is fair, I think, … Continue reading →

Like mbork, Vivek Haldar a short list of some changes he likes in Emacs 29. As with mbork’s list, these aren’t the big things, they’re some small changes that he finds particularly helpful or appealing. You can follow the Twitter … Continue reading →