Tag Archives: Emacs

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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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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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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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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Emacs In Pop Culture

Posted on 2026-06-10 by jcs

Ian Pan has curated a nice collection of Emacs caught in the wild. By “in the wild” I mean “in popular culture”: things like movies and comics. Most of us have seen the familiar scene from Tron but Pan has … Continue reading →

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Elfeed 4.0.0

Posted on 2026-06-08 by jcs

Daniel Mendler, who took over as maintainer of the world’s best RSS reader, Elfeed, has announced the release of Elfeed 4.0.0. You can read the Change File to see what’s new but the most important point for me is that … Continue reading →

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Correcting The Orientation of macOS Photos on Linux

Posted on 2026-06-07 by jcs

JTR over at The Art Of Not Asking Why describes a problem—and its resolution—that I didn’t know existed. The TL;DR is that photographs taken with an iPhone are always captured in landscape mode but Apple’s software detects portrait photos and … Continue reading →

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