Tag Archives: Emacs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has a short post on how to make y-or-n-p return t when the user types Return. Check his post for the details but the TL;DR is that he temporarily extends the y-or-n-p keymap to have Return return … Continue reading →

If you’re like me, you hate dealing with text outside of Emacs. Even those of us who spend as much time as we can inside Emacs have to interact with other applications. In my case, that’s mostly Safari. The problem … Continue reading →

If you use the Ivy/Swiper/Counsel package, you know that are a lot of ways to do searches. So many that it can hard to remember what they all are and how to invoke them. Fortunately, Yuri Tricys has come to … Continue reading →

Derek Taylor has a video that calls out what he says are Three HUGE Mistakes New Emacs Users Make. He says that many Emacs n00bs have a hard time getting started because they make the same three basic mistakes. The … Continue reading →

One of the things you often want to know is what keybindings are available for the current buffer. Emacs, of course, has a command for that: describe-bindings, bound to Ctrl+h b. I never use it. The problem is that it … Continue reading →

John Kitchin has a new video up on his Scimax Channel. The video’s theme is Ivy’s completion mechanism. It doesn’t seem like there would be a lot to say but, of course, there’s plenty. Kitchin begins by explaining completing-read, a … Continue reading →

Mike Zamansky is back with another video in his Using Emacs Series. This one is about completions, Marginalia, and Embark. As he said in his last video, he’s refactoring his Emacs configuration and trying to make it simpler so he’s … Continue reading →