Monthly Archives: September 2025

Roman Numerals. On the one hand, it’s hard to understand why anyone cares anymore. Some, like the late Rich Stevens considered them an anachronistic barbarism and labeled his books “Volume 1, 2, …” rather than the more conventional “Volume I, … Continue reading →

It’s September so there’s a new Emacs Carnival. This month the topic is Obscure Emacs Packages. I have to admit that when I first saw the topic I wasn’t too hopeful that it would be interesting but, of course, I … Continue reading →

In the developer world, we often talk about two types of bankruptcy: Email Bankruptcy This is when we have so many unread emails that we simply give up, delete them all, and start over. Emacs Bankruptcy This is when our … Continue reading →

A few years ago, starting in 2016, I wrote a series of articles (1, 2, 3) about my favorite Emacs packages and tips. Reading them now, almost ten years later, I find they’ve aged well. I still use everything on … Continue reading →

James Dyer has another in his series of posts describing the sanding down of his workflow. This time he troubleshoots and resolves a problem with minibuffer file completion. His specific problem was that he didn’t like the way fuzzy file … Continue reading →

Álvaro Ramírez and James Dyer have a problem. The same problem. They sometimes need to reindent a region or the entire buffer. That’s easy enough to do. You can select the entire buffer with Ctrl+x h or select the region … Continue reading →

I’m writing this on September 1 so there’s a new theme for the Emacs Carnival. Nonetheless, one final Elevator Pitch showed up in my feed and it seemed worthy of a few words. The post is from Philip Kaluđerčić and … Continue reading →

Álvaro Ramírez had a problem. The SVG header in the buffer of one of his apps was occasionally disappearing. The problem was that he didn’t know where to look for the bug. Then it occurred to him that he could … Continue reading →