Tag Archives: Emacs

Here’s yet another post commenting on something that Bozhidar Batsov wrote on Emacs Redux. I like to write about his posts because they typically look at some Emacs functionality that we all thought we knew about and tells us things … Continue reading →

I’ve written a couple of times about Álvaro Ramírez’s Journelly [1, 2] and how it seemed like a good fit for my memo book needs. In the last of those posts, Ramírez announced that he was starting an official beta … Continue reading →

Bozhidar Batsov has posted another in his long list of informative Emacs posts. This time, it’s about configuring Emacs garbage collection. The principal way of doing that is to set gc-cons-threshold to a higher value than its default of 80000. … Continue reading →

Over at The MKat, Marie K. Ekeberg has a post that brings me back to my earliest days of using Emacs. Before I was assimilated, I tried several times to warm up to Emacs but it wouldn’t take. Ekeberg’s post … Continue reading →

Back in the bad old days when personal computers weren’t nearly as reliable as they are today, it was common to have your computer crash when you were right in the middle of writing a document. Because of that, a … Continue reading →

Over at the Emacs subreddit, weevyl talks about how Emacs completion changed his life. Or at least his Emacs life. His story is about his repeated efforts to move to Emacs and always failing. He finally realized that the reason … Continue reading →

Over that the Emacs reddit, arni_ca asks about key bindings for cursor movement. It’s not quite clear what he’s asking but the theme is moving the cursor without bindings like Ctrl+f, Ctrl+b, Meta+f, Meta+b, Ctrl+n, and Ctrl+p. As is often … Continue reading →

I’ve written before about relative line numbers. The idea is to label the current line as 0 and the other lines as positive or negative offsets from it. It’s handy if you want to quickly move to another line. As … Continue reading →

The other day, in response to my The Power Of Elfeed post, René Trappel wrote to me offline about his Elfeed package that enables content search. He calls his package “Cuckoo Search” for reasons you can discover at his Github … Continue reading →