Monthly Archives: June 2026

Changes Coming In Emacs 31

Posted on 2026-06-20 by jcs

Rahul M. Juliato has an informative post on what’s coming in Emacs 31. Juliato doesn’t mind living on the edge and has been tracking and using Emacs from the Master and emacs-31 branches. He says he likes to know “what’s … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Vibe Coding vs. System Engineering

Posted on 2026-06-19 by jcs

Yusuf Aytas has a great post that explores the difference between a vibe coder and a software engineer. He plays it straight and says, basically, that vibe coding may be fine for a proof of concept or for a one-off … Continue reading →

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The Emacs Help System

Posted on 2026-06-18 by jcs

Charlie Holland has a very nice contribution to June’s Emacs Carnival about underappreciated Emacs builtins. His post is about the Emacs help system and how you can use it to learn everything about Emacs. It’s a commonplace to say that … Continue reading →

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Ray On Diary

Posted on 2026-06-17 by jcs

Over at Ray on Emacs, Raymond Zeitler writes about the Emacs Diary for the June Emacs Carnival. The June topic is underappreciated Emacs built-ins and for Zeitler that’s Emacs Diary. He was a little disconcerted at first by being offered … Continue reading →

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Scrolling PDFs In Other Windows

Posted on 2026-06-16 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has a useful post on scrolling PDFs in the other window. He wants to use the familiar Ctrl+Meta+v and Ctrl+Meta+Shift+v shortcuts for pdf-tools. Sadly, these don’t work for scrolling PDFs but as mbork says, “… [I]t’s Emacs, … Continue reading →

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The World’s Most Recognized English Word

Posted on 2026-06-15 by jcs

A short test of your intuition: what’s the most recognized English word in the world? There are, of course, a bunch of words that everybody know in every language: please, thank you, bathroom… but this is an English word that … Continue reading →

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Dired Flat File Listings

Posted on 2026-06-14 by jcs

It turns out that if you call Dired from Elisp, you can pass it a list of files to display. Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) leveraged that fact to write a bit of Elisp that provides him with a flat list of … Continue reading →

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Your Digital Inheritance

Posted on 2026-06-13 by jcs

As you most of you know, I live a digital life. That doesn’t mean I have no existence outside the Internet or that I don’t have real life friends and loved ones. It simply means that almost all my transactions … Continue reading →

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AsciiDoc In Emacs

Posted on 2026-06-12 by jcs

Bozhidar Batsov has a post announcing a couple of new Emacs modes for AsciiDoc. In the usual Batsov way, he’s significantly improved the support for AsciiDoc in Emacs. He loves AsciiDoc but found it hard to use in Emacs because … Continue reading →

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An Emacs Based Writerdeck

Posted on 2026-06-11 by jcs

If you follow writers at all, you’ll have noticed that many prefer to write their prose in long hand even if they began their writing career with a computer. Tess Gerretsen and Neal Stephenson are two examples that come to … Continue reading →

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