Monthly Archives: November 2025

Org Tables In Comments And Docstrings

If you’ve been using Org-mode for a while, you’re probably familiar with its table editing functionality and may even know that you can use that functionality anywhere in Emacs with orgtbl-mode. For most non-Org applications, of course, those tables will … Continue reading

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Swift Development in Emacs

Here’s some good news for iOS/macOS developers who are also Emacs users. Until now, the only reasonable way to develop for iOS was to use Apple’s Xcode. Xcode is a perfectly good editor and has the necessary integration to make … Continue reading

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Bending Emacs – Episode 5: Ready Player Mode

Álvaro Ramírez is back with the fifth episode of Bending Emacs. This video is about Ready Player Mode, his version of a media player in Emacs. A year ago, Ramírez mostly moved away from streaming his music and went back … Continue reading

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A Toolbar For Edebug

If you write in Elisp, Edebug, a source level debugger for Elisp, can be a real help in debugging your code. The problem is that it’s fairly hard to use and has no UI to speak of other than opaque … Continue reading

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Watts Martin On Everything In Emacs

Serendipitously, my old pal Watts Martin posted his thoughts on everything in Emacs at about the same time that I did. Martin says that before he got into Emacs, he considered this “profoundly weird” but now he’s beginning to see … Continue reading

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Time-zones Is Now On Melpa

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Álvaro Ramírez’s time-zones package. It’s a package that expands on the built in world clock function by allowing cities to be added and deleted on the fly and by allowing the target … Continue reading

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Living In The Browser Vs. Living In Emacs

As most of you know, I’m a true believer in the idea of “living in Emacs”. I’ve imported every task possible into Emacs to the point where virtually all my tube time is spend either in Emacs or my browser. … Continue reading

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Speeding Up Org File Loading

Mahmood over at λ mental has a surprising post concerning the time to load and parse Org files. What was surprising to me is that a method I would have expected to take longer was actually much faster. Here’s a … Continue reading

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Mental Challenges And Emacs

JTR over at The Art Of Not Asking Why has a post that explores why Emacs is the right thing. He begins with a story of a Porche owner who often has to drive in countries that require cars to … Continue reading

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