Tag Archives: Emacs

The other day I wrote about Álvaro Ramírez’s DWIM Shell Commands package. The TL;DR is that it’s a template framework for executing shell commands from within Emacs when the shell command has tricky syntax or hard to remember options. Since … Continue reading →

I rarely use any of the diff utilities these days and when I do it’s mostly Ediff to resolve merge conflicts. That probably means I’m working too hard but I’ve always been that way: I just never think of using … Continue reading →

Álvaro Ramírez is relentless in chasing down ways to eliminate friction from his workflow. One day it occurred to him that invoking shell commands was an area with plenty of opportunities for workflow optimization. A particular problem was that many … Continue reading →

Torstein Krause Johansen runs Emacs in terminl mode on Linux. He likes to have several terminal sessions and switch between them. Previously, he used tmux to multiplex those terminal sessions onto a single screen but then tmux started crashing on … Continue reading →

Stefan Kangas writes that the first pretest for Emacs 28.2 is out. If you’re conservative about the Emacs version that you use but don’t mind a little bit of adventure, this is a great way to experience the next great … Continue reading →

Back in the Old Days™ ASCII was king and it was pretty much impossible to faithfully render any language that required diacritical marks or non-Latin characters. So essentially you could render English but anything else was iffy. All that changed … Continue reading →