Tag Archives: Emacs

What’s New In Emacs 28

Posted on 2022-04-10 by jcs

As usual upon a major Emacs release, Mickey Petersen, of Mastering Emacs fame, has an exhaustive listing of what’s new in the release. His post is an annotated version of the NEWS file so it is very long and detailed. … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: As I’ve Said Before

Posted on 2022-04-08 by jcs

Most smart people know that you shouldn’t pay any attention to polls you see on Twitter. Those of us who aren’t as smart can’t help ourselves. Here’s a case in point: Ratings of #linux text editors from @linuxformat. Notably absent … Continue reading →

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Org Modern

Posted on 2022-04-05 by jcs

As regular readers know, I’m not much for bling and fancy formatting in my editor but that’s a personal choice without a moral dimension. Plenty of people like to have their Emacs buffers look as nice as possible. For those … Continue reading →

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Emacs 28.1

Posted on 2022-04-04 by jcs

Yesterday, Eli bumped the version of Emacs to 28.1. I wasn’t sure if there would be further release candidates coming but at the time the release had not appeared on any of the FTP servers nor had there been a … Continue reading →

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The Power of Emacs

Posted on 2022-04-01 by jcs

I saw this tweet by Daniel Nemenyi today: I use #emacs, not Word, for writing. It was playing up. Typing became sluggish. So I ran its profiler, typed a few lines, ran profiler-report and found a function gobbling up CPU. … Continue reading →

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An Emacs User Looks at Acme

Posted on 2022-03-31 by jcs

I’ve written before about the Acme editor. The first time it was about Russ Cox’s video tour of Acme. The second was Vince Foley’s take on Acme as an Emacs user. Those were almost 10 years ago so perhaps it’s … Continue reading →

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Another Paean to RSS

Posted on 2022-03-30 by jcs

Radosław Miernik has a post that’s another paean to RSS. He explains what RSS is, how it works, and its advantages to the reader. It’s mostly used to track blog entries but its application is actually broader. Basically any site … Continue reading →

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Taking Yegge’s Advice

Posted on 2022-03-29 by jcs

Last week, I wrote about Steve Yegge’s latest Emacs video, Emergency Emacs. The video was mostly about rebinding the Emacs commands that he uses frequently to be as easy to type as possible. One of his rebindings was to replace … Continue reading →

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File Templates in Emacs

Posted on 2022-03-26 by jcs

Jeremy Friesen has to write a weekly summary of his team’s work. That summary has a fixed format so management provided a template for it. Being an Emacs user, Friesen, of course, wanted to write his report in Emacs. He … Continue reading →

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Steve Yegge on Emergency Emacs

Posted on 2022-03-24 by jcs

If you’re an Emacs user you’re probably familiar with Steve Yegge’s famous Effective Emacs post. If you’re not, you should go read it right now. It’s full of suggestions to make you more efficient at using Emacs. It really increased … Continue reading →

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