Tag Archives: Emacs

The other day, I wrote about repeat mode. My take was that it was a way repeating certain commands without having to retype their, possibly, complex prefixes. All of that is true but as Karthik informed me in a comment, … Continue reading →

Bozhidar Batsov has a post that mentions how M-x shows a lot of commands many of which make no sense in the current context. This has never bothered me because after inputting a few (fuzzy) letters, the display converges on … Continue reading →

As many you know, I was a Vim user for a couple of decades before I found the one true editor. One of the things I miss from Vim is the easy to use repeat command. If you’re in command … Continue reading →

Irreal readers can’t help but know who Álvaro Ramírez is, if for no other reason that I’m always blathering on about his Journelly app that is my most used and useful iOS app. But of course, Ramírez has many other … Continue reading →

There are, I suppose, a few Lisp programmers using Emacs who resist paredit but most of the rest of us have long since succumbed to its charms. It can be a bit difficult to get used to but once you … Continue reading →

One of Lisp’s features that seem like magic to those of us brought up with C-like languages is the ability to change the code of a running process, reload it, and continue running with the new code. The amazing thing … Continue reading →

Over at Bicycle For Your Mind, macosxguru reports that despite his good intentions to stop tweaking his configuration and absorb what he already had installed, he found that there were so many excellent new packages that he had to add … Continue reading →