Monthly Archives: July 2024

I recently wrote about Casual RE Builder, one of Charles Choi’s Casual Suite apps. As I wrote then, it goes a long ways towards making RE-builder usable for those of us who can’t remember all the commands necessary to export … Continue reading →

Kris Brandow has a (very) short video—I think it’s part of a podcast—advancing the idea that you should learn Vim or Emacs. Irreal, of course, is not going to argue with that but I wish he’d given more reasons why … Continue reading →

Álvaro Ramírez has a very revealing post about the compounding benefits of learning a bit of Elisp. Studying how Emacs works and learning its various features pays huge dividends but, says Ramírez, learning some Elisp can compound those dividends and … Continue reading →

Charles Choi has another great addition to his Casual Suite. This time it’s an interface to the re-builder command. There are two things that everyone agrees about Emacs regular expressions: They’re very powerful and useful They have an arcane syntax … Continue reading →

Just a quickie from something that I’ve had in the queue for a while. Chris Maiorana has a short post on relative line numbers. The idea is that the current line—the line you’re on—is considered line 0 and the lines … Continue reading →

Over at DyerDwelling there’s another nice example of using a transient menu to capture the keystrokes for a set of packages. This time it’s for some spelling related packages. The author couldn’t make up his mind on what keystrokes he … Continue reading →

Forward Does anyone know what happened to Emacs Elements? As I was getting ready to publish this post, I notices that the below linked video was gone and that Google said it had been deleted by the author. On further … Continue reading →