Tag Archives: Emacs

Emacs Dev Update 2021

Posted on 2021-12-01 by jcs

Another talk in the 2021 EmacsConf program is John Wiegley’s video on what’s coming in Emacs. Almost all of the talk is about new features in Emacs 28, of course. The talk is only 7 minutes, 17 seconds long so … Continue reading →

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Orgdown

Posted on 2021-11-30 by jcs

This is another post that discusses a talk from EmacsConf 2021. This one, by Karl Voit, is about the Org-mode markup language. Org markup is superior to its competitors—sorry Markdowners, you know it is—but suffers from the fact that it’s … Continue reading →

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Org Executables

Posted on 2021-11-29 by jcs

Over the weekend, the 2021 EmacsConf took place and presented a slue of great talks. Irreal will mention at least a couple of them starting with Tom Gillespie’s astounding talk on how to make Org files executable. The first question … Continue reading →

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Tree Sitter and Syntax Highlighting

Posted on 2021-11-27 by jcs

Mickey Petersen author of the the excellent book Mastering Emacs and the blog of the same name has another of his comprehensive and informative articles on his blog. This time it’s about tree sitter and its application to syntax highlighting … Continue reading →

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Emacs as a Lifestyle

Posted on 2021-11-26 by jcs

Bozhidar Batsov made an interesting observation that several people have mentioned or commented on. The TL;DR is that Batsov thinks that Emacs can be considered a lifestyle. If you’re an Emacser your reaction is probably like mine: it’s not literally … Continue reading →

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Proportional Fonts in the Mode Line

Posted on 2021-11-25 by jcs

Lars Ingebrigtsen has an interesting post about proportional fonts in the Emacs mode line. His post shows the same mode line in both fixed and proportional fonts. There’s no arguing that the proportional fonts look better and that they allow … Continue reading →

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Lisp at Kina

Posted on 2021-11-21 by jcs

I haven’t talked about Common-Lisp on Irreal for a long time. That’s mostly because the majority of my recent Lisp programming has been in Elisp but I still love Common-Lisp and Scheme and am always happy when I find an … Continue reading →

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Git History for Selected Text

Posted on 2021-11-20 by jcs

Here’s a nice tip for finding all the commits related to some selected text in Magit: In #magit of #emacs, M-x magit-log-buffer-file with a region selected, this will show the region related commits only. https://t.co/bnWwhrGKUw #git — Jumpei KAWAMI (@junkw) … Continue reading →

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Bozhidar Batsov Revists “Why Emacs”

Posted on 2021-11-18 by jcs

Ten years ago, Bozhidar Batsov wrote a post entitled Why Emacs. It was a short essay on why he used Emacs, what was good about it, and what its shortcomings were. Ten years later, Batsov, like most of us, is … Continue reading →

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Plain Org

Posted on 2021-11-16 by jcs

For us Emacers, one of the longstanding shortcomings of iOS and, to a lesser extent, the Android ecosystem is the lack of an Emacs app. There are several Org-mode centered apps that allow you to perform various Org functions on … Continue reading →

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