Tag Archives: Emacs

There are, I suppose, reasons that an Emacs user might need or prefer to use Mardown rather than Org mode. A popular reason is that some blogging platforms want their input in Markdown and writing directly in it rather than … Continue reading →

Here’s a handy tip from John Cook’s \(\TeX\) Tips Twitter feed (see here): Trying to find an unbalanced delimiter in LaTeX? If you're using Emacs you can run tex-validate-region to narrow down where the problem is. — TeX tips (@TeXtip) … Continue reading →

It is often, but not always, nice to have a running count of the words in a buffer. Most usually, this is convenient for writers or students who need to keep track of word count in a paper or book. … Continue reading →

Gergely Risko has an interesting GitHub repository that explores ways of making your Emacs load time as small as possible. Unless I’m hacking on my configuration, I rarely start Emacs except at boot time so the two or three seconds … Continue reading →

As most of you are doubtless sick of hearing by now, I’ve settled very happily on mu/mu4e to handle my email from within Emacs. It’s not the only possibility, of course, and many other Emacers prefer using notmuch, which is … Continue reading →

Since Emacs 25.1, Artur Malabarba’s excellent let-alist macro has been a built-in feature of Emacs. As the name suggests, it’s a way of dealing with alists. The idea is that instead of writing a series of assq and cdr statements, … Continue reading →