Tag Archives: Emacs

Like most longer term Emacs users, one of the first things I did was to get rid of the annoying long-form Yes/No questions that required you to answer “yes” or “no” explicitly. That was easy to do. I simply aliased … Continue reading →

I just discovered a useful trick over at Ruslan’s Tech Blog. It’s about finding the file at point. Ruslan does this a lot. I, on the other hand, hardly every do it but I have gotten used to typing Ctrl+c … Continue reading →

As longtime Irreal readers know, I am an Avy fanatic and use it as my principal means of buffer navigation. For a long time, I mostly used avy-goto-word-1 but it can only be used to search for the beginning of … Continue reading →

If you’ve been using Org-mode for a while, you’re probably familiar with its table editing functionality and may even know that you can use that functionality anywhere in Emacs with orgtbl-mode. For most non-Org applications, of course, those tables will … Continue reading →

Álvaro Ramírez is back with the fifth episode of Bending Emacs. This video is about Ready Player Mode, his version of a media player in Emacs. A year ago, Ramírez mostly moved away from streaming his music and went back … Continue reading →

Serendipitously, my old pal Watts Martin posted his thoughts on everything in Emacs at about the same time that I did. Martin says that before he got into Emacs, he considered this “profoundly weird” but now he’s beginning to see … Continue reading →

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Álvaro Ramírez’s time-zones package. It’s a package that expands on the built in world clock function by allowing cities to be added and deleted on the fly and by allowing the target … Continue reading →