Monthly Archives: October 2023

If you’re interested in editors or even just Emacs internals you probably know about gap buffers. They’re a way of holding the data being edited so that it can be updated and displayed quickly and easily. It’s not the only … Continue reading →

The first official edition of the ELPA and Emacs Zine has been published. This edition is more concerned with Emacs than ELPA but it’s promising to be a useful resource for Emacs users. The current episode considers the discussion of … Continue reading →

This is a sort of advertisement for EmacsConf 2023. Sacha Chua has published a list of talks and it looks like it’s going to be a really great conference. The list is really useful. It’s not just roster of the … Continue reading →

Emacs Elements has a really excellent video on features, requires, and autoloads. The putative subject is speeding up the Emacs load process and perhaps even Emacs itself. The idea is that if, like me and Emacs Elements, you have a … Continue reading →

Charles Choi offers a small tip that many of you might find useful. Choi spends a lot of time in online conferences and chats. These often involve interlocutors in other time zones and, of course, it’s useful to know what … Continue reading →

Over at Bob on Medical Device Software, Robert Nadler has a nifty post on his new package elfeed-curate. The idea is to select various articles in the elfeed feed list—possibly annotating them—and export them in a publishable format. Nadler uses … Continue reading →

Ankit has an interesting post about setting up a custom Tramp method. His use case is a little complicated but the TL;DR is that his work involves writing software to control robots. For testing and development, they have an internal … Continue reading →

Emacs Elements has a video on how to move Emacs from Windows to Linux. That may seem a little nichey but Irreal feels duty bound to provide whatever assistance it can in helping people migrate off of Windows to a … Continue reading →

Over at the Emacs subreddit, rebcabin-r has a short post on Ergonomics and Emacs. By ergonomics he doesn’t mean the usual issues of RSI and overused pinkies. Rather, he’s talking about a comfortable environment for writing and coding. His experience … Continue reading →