Monthly Archives: July 2024

A N00b Reminisces

Over at the Emacs subreddit, Ok-Machine-6265 is a new(ish) Emacs user who has some thoughts after using Emacs for about a year and a half. His experience has been good. He loves the power that Emacs gives him and lists … Continue reading

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Inlining The Previous Result In Edebug

Álvaro Ramírez has a very nice post about improving the edebug dislay. He starts be recalling the now nearly 10 year old post from Artur Malabarba on why you should learn to use edebug, the source level Elisp debugger. He … Continue reading

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Casual Ibuffer

Charles Choi is back with a new member of his Casual suite. His Casual suite, in case you don’t know, is a collection of transient based menus to make dealing with Emacs major modes and subsystems easier. Choi’s latest addition … Continue reading

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Is Emacs Bloated?

Icy-Repair8024 says he’s a new Emacs user who started using it believing that Emacs was a “lightweight” editor but upon discovering all its features now believes it’s bloated and wonders if he should give up on it. I have to … Continue reading

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Moving To The Beg/End Of Structures

Over at the Emacs subreddit, justsellingmykeeb asks for the best way of moving to the beginning or end of various structures such as regions delimited by some sort of brace or HTML tag. I usually use Ctrl+Meta+f, Ctrl+Meta+b, and, when … Continue reading

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Configuring A Private Ispell Dictionary

Chris Maiorana has a useful piece of information for all Emacs users. If you’ve used Emacs at all for writing you’re doubtlessly familiar with ispell. I’m a terrible speller and absolutely couldn’t live without it. I have it set up … Continue reading

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Ready Player Mode

Álvaro Ramirez has announced another of his “ease my workflow” projects. Like many, or perhaps most, of the best projects, this one was conceived to scratch an author’s itch. This particular itch was finding a way of taking a quick … Continue reading

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Charles Choi on Imenu

Charles Choi has an excellent post on imenu. I’ve used it for a long time via the excellent councel-imenu but I’ve never really understood its scope or essential raison d’être. I’ve always thought of it as a way of locating … Continue reading

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Programming Fonts

Many, many years ago I adopted the Inconsolata font because it was one of the first widely available, free, antialiased programming fonts. In those days, I was still using Vim but when I moved to Emacs, I brought it along … Continue reading

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EmacsConf 2024: Call For Participation

Planning for the 2024 EmacsConf is underway and the organizers are calling for participation. “Calling for participation” means they’re asking folks to submit proposals for talks. The conference will again be virtual and take place on December 7th and 8th. … Continue reading

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