Monthly Archives: November 2023

Michael Neuper has a very nice article on Efficient LaTeX Editing With Emacs. As far as I know, there’s only two reasonable ways of doing that: Org Mode AUCTeX Org mode is good for what might be called “light weight” … Continue reading →

Ruslan Bekenev has a post on filtering the results of buffer listings that reminded me of something I’ve known since I started using Emacs but keep forgetting. Bekenev writes that he often lists the open buffers with Ctrl+x Ctrl+b mostly … Continue reading →

Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) has a really excellent video on Ediff. I’ve always had a difficult relationship with Ediff. It seemed really complicated with lots of obscure commands and, by default, a control panel that resides in a different frame, which … Continue reading →

Mario Jason Braganza has an interesting post that opened my eyes to another way of adapting Emacs to your workflow. I’m a programmer so my first impulse when I have a problem to solve with my workflow is to write … Continue reading →

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has a cute post that addresses the abomination known as camel case. I use the term camel case to cover actual camel case as well as any of its illegitimate siblings such as studly caps. As I’ve … Continue reading →

Martin Edström has announced a new package: massmapper. The idea is to make it easy to—for example—copy all the Ctrl– bindings to Super-. That’s a real pain if you try to do it piecemeal by hand but massmapper makes it … Continue reading →

Sandra Snan over at Idiomdrottning has posted a link to some very idiosyncratic functions that seem at first to be useless or even silly but may, on second thought, actually be useful for some applications. The idea is that they’re … Continue reading →

I’m running a little experiment. Even though I recently realized that I hardly ever use a terminal emulator, I was intrigued by this shoutout to the eat terminal emulator package. Except for the usual ankle biters, who don’t appear to … Continue reading →

I just ran across this reddit post about Ultyas, a utility to convert UltiSnips to YASnippet format. I was about to move on but UltiSnips stirred a distant memory so I searched Irreal and found a couple of posts that … Continue reading →