Tag Archives: Emacs

Álvaro Ramírez has a new Bending Emacs video up. This time it’s about his agent-shell app that serves as uniform Emacs interface to LLM agents supporting the Agent Client Protocol (ACP). I’m not interested in LLM technology so you almost … Continue reading →

Emacs has a couple of builtin ways of dealing with separate windows that are looking at the same file. The default method is to simply “open” the file again in a separate window. In this case you have two views … Continue reading →

I saw this post from mbork on paragraph filling. It’s a nice post and I’ll probably write about it later but today I want write about something else he mentioned in his post: unfill.el. It’s from Steve Purcell and has … Continue reading →

Chris Maiorana has decided to take the old joke about Emacs being an operating seriously. Or at least at face value. He has planned a series of posts where he compares the Unix way of doing things to the Emacs … Continue reading →

One of the problems with the ELPA package manager is that you never know what you’re getting when you upgrade. The package manager tells you what packages can be upgraded and you can choose to upgrade or not but you … Continue reading →

Matthias over at Ahoi Blog makes an observation that I’ve also made many times: Discussion about Emacs startup times ends as soon as you run Emacs as a daemon. The startup is instantaneous and if you prefer a Vim-like way … Continue reading →

I hardly ever write directly in HTML anymore. For a long time my only use was adding links and emphasis markup in WordPress comments but Disqus no longer accepts HTML so even that use has atrophied. Nevertheless, the need sometimes … Continue reading →

I’ve written before about Álvaro Ramírez’s time-zones app. It’s sort of like the builtin Emacs app world-clock but easier to configure and you can move the times forward and backward, which is useful for setting up remote meetings in several … Continue reading →