Tag Archives: Emacs

As regular readers know, I’m a big fan of Melpa and its proprietor Steve Purcell. It’s an extraordinary resource run strictly as a public service. The site is not monetized and yet Purcell devotes huge amounts of time to running … Continue reading →

If you’ve been around Irreal for a while, you know that I don’t usually partake in the Editor Wars except in a humorous way, mostly in Red Meat Friday posts such as this one. Over at Kindness City there’s a … Continue reading →

David Wilson over at System Crafters has the third video up in his series on Org-roam. I’ve said before, I’ve found his series more useful than any other introduction to Org-roam that I’ve seen. This episode focuses on the journaling … Continue reading →

Ashok Khanna has a quick introduction to the basics of Dired. It’s not even a précis of the Dired section of the Emacs manual and doesn’t mention the essential Wdired mode but it is a useful post to get you … Continue reading →

The other day it popped into my mind to wonder what the most useful Emacs editing functions are. Various people—like Xah Lee—have taken actual measurements of the most used functions. The most often used function is, of course, self-insert-command, which … Continue reading →

As regular readers know, I’m fascinated with how non-technical users employ Emacs in their work. Paul Rankin has a video on how to set up fountain-mode for screenwriting. Artistic people are like the rest of us in that they like … Continue reading →