Tag Archives: Emacs

If you’ve been around for a while, you know that I don’t think very much of C++. It has all the disadvantages of C while managing to lose what makes C worthwhile. Others disagree, of course, and in any event … Continue reading →

I’ve written before about EXWM and its use as a window manager for systems running on X Windows. The basic idea is that Emacs becomes your windows manager and other applications run in an Emacs buffer. That’s a boon for … Continue reading →

After writing about Florian Adamsky’s post on acronyms in AUCTeX, I snooped around on his site and came across a nice post on Emacs Calc from a programmer’s and computer scientist’s point of view. As regular readers know, I’ve been … Continue reading →

Florian Adamsky has a very nice post on handling acronyms in LaTeX documents. Good style dictates that the first time you use an acronym, you should provide the full written out definition. Later instances can just use the acronym. That’s … Continue reading →

Eli Zarestskii has announced that barring any difficulties coming to light, the Emacs 26.1 RC1 should be released next week. Zarestskii expects that that will be followed in short order by the release of Emacs 26.1 itself. Relative newcomers to … Continue reading →

Grant Rettke has an interesting take on abo-abo’s Hydra package. His idea is that you can use hydras for a sort of lightweight literate programming. Most Irreal readers are already aware of hydras’ utility as a way of gathering related … Continue reading →

Karl Voit captures my feelings about Emacs exactly: Seeing #Emacs as an #editor is like seeing a car as a seating-accommodation.#PIM #orgmode #informationcentric #vim #editorwar #IDE #opensource — Karl Voit (@n0v0id) March 4, 2018

I stumbled across the package Auto-YASnippet, by the prodigious abo-abo, again the other day. I vaguely remember reading about it a couple of years ago when it was first released. The idea is to create a temporary yasnippet on the … Continue reading →