Monthly Archives: October 2023

Just a quick tip from Ruslan Bekenev: find-grep-dired. It’s a nice way of running grep directly from a Dired buffer. The nice thing, as Bekenev points out is that the result is a filtered Dired listing of all the files … Continue reading →

Mike Zamansky has returned from his European vacation and is jumping right back into his Learning Elisp video series. The current video is the start of a new project: automatically inserting an Emolji into an Emacs buffer. This video is … Continue reading →

Eli writes to tell us that the Emacs 29.1.90, a pretest for Emacs 29.2, is available. It seems like 29.1 was just released and we’re already in the early stages of the Emacs 29.2 release. The point releases are mainly … Continue reading →

One of the first things every writer learns—probably in high school—is to avoid using the same word repeatedly in close proximity to each other. I’m really strict about that to the point where I try to avoid using the same … Continue reading →

Emacs Elements has been vlogging up a storm lately and has another useful video on Emacs line commands. The video covers four Emacs commands that all deal with removing lines from a buffer. The four commands that the video considers … Continue reading →

Emacs Elements has another interesting video up. This time it’s about some useful selection commands from from Xah Lee. The first of these is a command to select the current line. I use Steve Purcell’s whole-line-or-region for this and it’s … Continue reading →

Unduly-noted is a new Emacs user but that didn’t stop him from figuring out how to leverage Emacs to streamline his workflow. The TL;DR is that he wanted to import lectures and ancillary data from a course he was taking … Continue reading →

A couple of months ago, I wrote about Charles Choi’s post on Emacs defaults. Choi had a list of defaults with which he disagreed. I agreed with him on some of list and disagreed on other parts. It was, though, … Continue reading →