Monthly Archives: June 2025

Fold And Focus Comes To Markdown

Flandrew likes Org mode but he wanted to improve his workflow with it a bit. So he wrote some code that he called Fold and Focus—Focused Navigation. The idea was that when in Org mode a single key would move … Continue reading

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How To Stop Emacs From Asking For Aliases

Today (Saturday) appears to be a slow day on the technical Internet or perhaps everyone is hiding out from the AI apocalypse. Whatever the reason, I can’t find anything to write about that’s up to the refined standards of Irreal … Continue reading

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More Emacs Startup Time

Because I know you guys never stop jonesing for another episode of the endless debate on Emacs startup time, here’s yet another post to feed your addiction. Over at the Emacs subreddit, prothtuahel complains that Emacs is taking 3 seconds … Continue reading

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Why Did You Switch From Vim To Emacs?

Over at the Emacs subreddit, floofcode asks those who moved from Vim to Emacs to tell their stories. On the one hand, it’s pretty much what you’d expect. The majority of the commenters said it was either Org mode or … Continue reading

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-2000 Lines Of Code

I recently reported the sad news that Bill Atkinson—considered by everyone who knew him one of the best programmers of all time—had died. One of my favorite stories about him was recounted by Andy Hertzfeld at his Folklore website. Someone … Continue reading

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Casual Man and Help

A quick post today. Charles Choi has just released another app in his Casual suite. This time it’s for the man and help modes. We all use these all the time, of course, but there are plenty of obscure bindings … Continue reading

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Making TRAMP Faster

One of Emacs’ really nice features is TRAMP. It allows you to edit files on a remote system and otherwise interact with that system as if you were working on your local machine. The problem with it is that it … Continue reading

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Undergrad Notes

Chris Maiorana has an interesting post on note taking with Emacs. He says that Emacs and, in particular Org mode, have all sorts of functions to make taking notes easier but that it’s easy to get bogged down in trying … Continue reading

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Running Emacs On Multiple Platforms

Many of us run Emacs on multiple platforms. Some, like me, simply run several OSs on our various computers, and some have one system type at work and another at home. Regardless, we all want a one true Emacs configuration … Continue reading

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How To Live Inside Emacs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, kudikarasavasa asks a question dear to the hearts of many of us: How did you start living inside Emacs permanently? He says he keeps hearing people say they live inside Emacs and the idea seems … Continue reading

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