Tag Archives: Emacs

Protesilaos Stavrou has posted his talk to LibrePlanet 2022 on Emacs and the meaning of freedom as understood by those of us in the free software community. The talk is comprehensive in that he starts with an explanation of what … Continue reading →

Sometimes it’s convenient to execute an Emacs command from outside Emacs. The traditional way of doing that is to run Emacs in server mode and use emacsclient like this: emacsclient –eval “(some-emacs-command)” You can, of course, execute several Emacs commands … Continue reading →

How could I not know about this? It’s been in Emacs since Emacs 19.31 so it’s been around for at least 26 years. In case you, too, aren’t familiar with it, Bhaskar Chowdhury has a video that explains and demonstrates … Continue reading →

Some good news from Eli. The third pretest for Emacs 28.1, Emacs 28.0.92, is now available for testing. As usual, if you can help with the testing by installing and using the pretest, please do so. The heroes who selflessly … Continue reading →

Arjen Wiersma has been an Emacs user for a long time: twenty two years. He has a lengthy post about that time that describes those years and also his current set up. It all started for Wiersma when, after drifting … Continue reading →

Steve Yegge, who is always interesting, has a nice video that he describes as a guided tour of Emacs. Yegge characterizes it as covering “roughly 12 features of Emacs, out of approximately 18 billion hillion jillion total”. If there’s an … Continue reading →

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has a short post that brings news of an upcoming feature in Emacs: transient input method. It’s much like toggle-input-method used to switch to another input method but it’s only in effect for the next character. That … Continue reading →

Today, I saw this tweet from Tory Anderson: I just experienced #emacs rectangle-mark-mode for the first time, though I’ve been using rectangles for a long time. This allows me to make a rectangle easily even when neither first nor the … Continue reading →

Tony Aldon wondered how hi-line-mode worked so he looked into it. He was so enchanted with what he found that he decided to share it on reddit. That might not sound too interesting but hi-line-mode depends on two Emacs features, … Continue reading →