Tag Archives: Emacs

Jonas Bernoulli (tarsius) has a long post announcing new channels and versioning on MELPA. Why a long post? And, really, why should we care? It turns out that the process is much more complicated than you’d think it would be … Continue reading →

Nicolas Cavigneaux has an excellent post on signing and optionally encrypting emails sent with mu4e. The idea is to sign each email you send and if you have a GPG key for every recipient, encrypt it was well. As Cavigneaux … Continue reading →

Jonas Bernoulli is announcing the release of Magit 4.6. It includes, he says, over 300 commits since the last release 6 months ago. You can check Bernoulli’s post for the details but an overview is that the main changes were … Continue reading →

Over at Emacs Dwelling there’s a nice post on why you should set Emacs to delete files by moving them to trash. That’s easy to do by setting delete-by-moving-to-trash to t. The post has a story illustrating why you should … Continue reading →

Randy Ridenour is living proof that you don’t have to be a young nerd to master Emacs and Elisp. Ridenour, a professor of Philosophy, has shown repeatedly that it’s possible for a nontechnical person to become sufficiently proficient with Emacs … Continue reading →

Charles Choi has a nice post on simulating the Unix at command with Emacs. Back in the old days, Choi used to use the Unix at command to notify himself of various events. In macOS, the at command is disabled … Continue reading →

As you all know by now, I’m not a Google fan and generally avoid using their products. The one exception is YouTube for videos. Apparently, YouTube also has a radio channel, which is a sort of music streaming service. I … Continue reading →

Bozhidar Batsov has an excellent post that considers structured editing using builtin Emacs commands. It turns out that all those commands (like forward-sexp) that you think of as Lisp-specific commands work in many other modes. The secret is that the … Continue reading →

Charlie Holland has a followup to his post on Emacs Help that I wrote about the other day. It’s a reconsidered, condensed version of the original post. As Holland puts it, This is a condensed version of my very long … Continue reading →