Tag Archives: Emacs

Randy Ridenour has an interesting post on Emacs and sunk costs. His post is in reaction to the idea that using Emacs requires a lot of learning and customization and that those efforts are sunk costs. That is, they’re costs … Continue reading →

For those of you who like using your mouse with Emacs, Charles Choi has a post you may find helpful. In it, he lists some keybindings that are helpful when using a mouse in Emacs. I famously eschew the use … Continue reading →

James Cherti has an excellent post describing how to set up a universal folding system. Folding is one of those things that I’m equivocal about. I use it all the time in Org files and couldn’t live without it. On … Continue reading →

As I’ve written many times, only my browner keeps me from doing almost everything in Emacs. Sure, there are some other apps that can’t be brought under the Emacs umbrella, but in many cases, emacs-everywhere allows me to handle text … Continue reading →

Earlier this week I wrote about Bozhidar Batsov’s post on short Emacs configuration hacks. As I mentioned then, my favorite was a simple configuration variable that causes the Help buffer to get focus when you open it. It’s easy to … Continue reading →