Monthly Archives: May 2024

Sven Seebeck has taken inspiration from Charles Choi and implemented a transient to ease one of his frequent operations. That task was playing music with EMMS. His needs, he says, are pretty vanilla. He typically just wants to play an … Continue reading →

A very short quickie today. The ever prolific Nicolas Rougier has another nice snippet for us. It’s a way of enclosing some text in a box. It’s a tiny bit of code but it can produce some very nice output. … Continue reading →

CleanPrinciple5, over at the Emacs subreddit, asks an interesting question. He wonders why texinfo isn’t more popular. If you are and always have been an Emacs user, you might find that a reasonable question. On the other hand, if you … Continue reading →

Álvaro Ramírez has a really handy tip for renaming files under version control with wdired. If you don’t already know about wdired, stop whatever you’re doing and find out about it right now. It’s really magical. The TL;DR is that … Continue reading →

The comments to my recent post Emacs And Modal Editing veered off to a discussion of why it’s not really possible to compare Emacs and Vim. Ag ibragimov expressed a point of view that I’ve long held: Emacs and Vim … Continue reading →

Richard Stallman writes to announce that he’s appointed a new Emacs maintainer. Not to worry, Eli Zaretskii is still a maintainer but Andrea Corallo will now be a co-maintainer along with Zaretskii and Stallman. Corallo, of course, is the engineer … Continue reading →

Over at the Emacs subreddit, meedstrom raises an interesting point: why is everyone hating on the Dash library? The short answer appears to be “dependencies”. Using the Dash library increases the number of dependencies and everyone knows that’s bad. The … Continue reading →

Like many of us, James Dyer sometimes has to use Vim even though he’s a dedicated Emacs user. He does this often enough that he’d like to maintain a bit of muscle memory for the Vim navigation commands. He doesn’t … Continue reading →