Monthly Archives: February 2025

If you’re like me and hate CamelCaseMode and all its evil brethren, there’s a solution: glasses-mode. Ruslan Bekenev reminds us of a long standing command that will display camel case names as underscore delimited instead. By “display” I mean that … Continue reading →

It’s a common complaint that Emacs is hard to configure. After all, you have to learn Elisp and all sorts of other arcana just so you can edit a file. It’s all nonsense, of course. Lots of non-programmers and even … Continue reading →

James Cherti has a quick tip worth reviewing if you’re not familiar with highlighting keywords in your source code. The idea is simple; you merely add the regexes for the keywords that you want to highlight to a font-lock-add-keywords call. … Continue reading →

I’m happy to say that the Irreal bunker is now running Emacs 30.1. I was going to just note this as a footnote to a regular post but there were a couple of problems that I thought were worth mentioning. … Continue reading →

Rejoice Emacsers. Stefan Kangas writes that as promised earlier this week, Emacs 30.1 has been released. You can check out the NEWS file if you want to know what’s new in this release. I’m writing this on Sunday evening and … Continue reading →

James Dyer is continuing his quest to remove as many third party packages as possible from his configuration. This time he’s replacing Magit with vc-mode. As I’ve said before, I don’t understand this urge to replace more or less proven … Continue reading →

Stefan Kangas writes that the Emacs 30.1 release candidate 1 is available for download. This is one of, possibly the last, steps before the release of Emacs 30.1. There’s also a Windows binary available. Kangas says that if there are … Continue reading →

Lars Ingebrigtsen has an interesting post that discusses writing WordPress blog posts in HTML. Why would you want to do that? Ingebrigtsen’s answer is that the alternatives are harder to use. In particular he says that markup languages are as … Continue reading →

I have family visiting so this is another short post. Charles Choi has an interesting tip for Emacs emoji users on macOS. I rarely use emojis anywhere but in texts so I wasn’t aware of Emacs facilities for choosing emojis. … Continue reading →