Tag Archives: Emacs

Tsoding has an interesting—possibly tongue in cheek—video that argues that Emacs is annoyingly useful. He begins by saying that he doesn’t like Emacs because it is “yanky and hacky”. Part of the problem, he says, is that Emacs has been … Continue reading →

Another quickie for those of you who prefer using Emacs in the terminal. The default Emacs action for Ctrl+w is to delete the current region. In most shells, Ctrl+w deletes the previous word. Srijan Choudhary found this a little disconcerting … Continue reading →

Just a quickie today. This post addresses a niche need that most readers probably aren’t facing. Joar Alexander Pablo von Arndt’s girlfriend recently bought a Framework 12 laptop and stylus and wanted to use it to take handwritten notes that … Continue reading →

For those of you who like to run Emacs in the terminal, Adithya Kumar has some useful advice. One of the problems with using the terminal is that some key presses are not passed on to Emacs. In graphical mode, … Continue reading →

For a long time I have been a huge fan of abo-abo (Oleh Krehel). He wrote the Ivy, Avy, and Swiper packages that are probably my most used Emacs add ins. Eleven years ago I wrote, “When I get tired … Continue reading →

Álvaro Ramírez is back with a new video in his Bending Emacs series. This time it’s about the super useful and flexible completing read function. The basic idea is that you supply a prompt and a list of possible answers. … Continue reading →

Watts Martin has an interesting post on calling macOS shortcuts from Emacs. For those who don’t know, a shortcut is sort of like an Applescript script. You can specify a sequence of actions along with some simple looping, give it … Continue reading →

A reoccurring theme on the Emacs forums is that it’s somehow a good thing to have a minimal configuration and by implication that having a small number of packages is also a good thing. Arguments can be made that a … Continue reading →