Tag Archives: Emacs

Sean Whitton writes to say that Emacs 31.0.91, the second Emacs 31 pretest, is now available. If you’re interested in trying it out, you can get a copy from https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-31.0.91.tar.xz. It’s signed so you should also get the signature file … Continue reading →

Bozhidar Batsov has been a writing a very nice series of posts on recent Emacs additions that are worth knowing. His latest is on making a window dedicated. A dedicated window is one that is locked to its current buffer. … Continue reading →

Mode lines. Everybody complains about them and a few brave souls—like Prot—have even taken the time and effort to do something about them. The problem is that they’re so tricky to configure that it’s not worthwhile so we just suffer … Continue reading →

Bozhidar Batsov has a quick post on a recent enhancement to Emacs Flymake. The TL;DR is that you can arrange for Flymake to append a diagnostic at the end of any line with a problem. It’s a quick way of … Continue reading →

As I’ve written recently [1, 2, 3, 4], I’ve been changing the Irreal Bunker’s spelling corrector to Jinx. I’ve had a couple of issues—mostly with choosing the correction—but things have mostly been smooth and Jinx has a lot of nice … Continue reading →

Some time ago, I installed Embark but I never got around to learning it and it has sat unused ever since. Then I saw this post by Bozhidar Batsov and decided to take another look. The problem with Embark is … Continue reading →

Yesterday I wrote that I had reconsidered my stance on Jinx and decided to give it a serious try. The only problem I had was that picking the correct spelling wasn’t working as advertised. I speculated that this was probably … Continue reading →

In a stunning case of the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon, I’ve been running across the Jinx spelling corrector everywhere. I had never heard of it until last week when I watched and wrote about Prot’s video on writing in foreign languages with … Continue reading →

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has a nice post on the Jinx spell corrector. Mbork has tried fly-spell but found it too laggy for his purposes. That was back in the days when he had a Pentium class machine running at 100 … Continue reading →