Monthly Archives: June 2024

I’ve been following the discussion on Emacs Devel about moving the excellent which-key app to Emacs core. Moving it to core was non-controversial. The only issue was whether they could get all the which-key contributors to assign their rights to … Continue reading →

Chris Maiorana has an interesting post on using Emacs for creative writing. The TL;DR was that a friend criticized his writing as being too “choppy” and speculated that it was because Emacs made it too easy to rearrange blocks of … Continue reading →

Daniel de Haas has a post that I really like. In it, he sings the praises of the Emacs idea that everything is a command. If you’re an Emacser that may seem obvious but imagine not being familiar with Emacs … Continue reading →

Over at the Emacs subreddit, WarmToiletSeat0 posts an all-too-rare thank you for a part of Emacs that we all take for granted: documentation. Emacs is famously the self-documenting editor, of course, but most of us probably don’t think very deeply … Continue reading →

Bsag over at but she’s a girl… has an interesting post on what she calls the Emacs from scratch cycle. She’s noticed that she goes through a roughly 3-year cycle of starting with a vanilla Emacs configuration, moving to one … Continue reading →

If you’ve been around Irreal for as little as a few months, you know that I’m a fan of Charles Choi’s “Casual” utilities. They’re all basically the same. They add a transient menu to Emacs utilities such as Calc, Isearch, … Continue reading →

Gene Goykhman, like a lot of Emacs users—or simply computer users, for that matter—hates dealing with fussy details while working on his computer. One of his complaints in particular is that there are too many confirmations in some of his … Continue reading →