Tag Archives: Emacs

This tweet from Mickey `M-x ibuffer’ is a strictly superior buffer list compared to the default one in #emacs bound to `C-x C-b’. It comes with dozens of commands and utility features. Like filtering and grouping, highlighting, and much, much … Continue reading →

If you write code, you’re probably always adding and deleting comments. It’s one of those things that’s so fundamental you’d think everyone already knows the best way of dealing with them but I often see questions about how best to … Continue reading →

We all know that one of the chief—if not the chief—benefit of Emacs is its extensibility. We say it all the time. Irreal says it all the time. But every once in a while the truth of that statement comes … Continue reading →

I’ve said this several times but, really, MELPA is one of Emacs’ great resources. Think for a moment how important it is to your Emacs life and what you would do if it disappeared. How would you replace it? There’s … Continue reading →

I’ve been using mu/mu4e for 5 years and love it. It really provides everything I want in a mail client except perhaps for handling HTML—which certain miscreants insist on sending to me—but even that’s an Emacs shortcoming that will undoubtedly … Continue reading →

Being a Mac user, I don’t get to play but I’ve always loved the idea of EXWM, probably because it moves Emacs closer to recapitulating the Lisp Machine. Other than making all windows Emacs windows, I never thought too much … Continue reading →

Bhaskar Chowdhury has an informative video on the annotation package for Emacs. The idea is that often you’d like to add notes to a file without corrupting the file itself. For example, you might want to add explanatory notes to … Continue reading →

As I’ve mentioned before, I enjoy solving crossword puzzles. Happily, you needn’t subscribe to a newspaper to get your daily fix. There are several apps available on just about every platform that provide you with as many of the puzzles … Continue reading →