Tag Archives: Emacs

Chanyoung is a Swiper user and asks a question I’ve sometimes wondered about: when using swiper, how do you choose the second or subsequent match on a line? If you follow the above link, you will see that abo-abo himself … Continue reading →

Way back in 2013 Magnar Sveen published a nice bit of Elisp for moving to the beginning and end of a dired buffer. By beginning and end, he meant the logical beginning and end: the first and last line of … Continue reading →

If you’ve been hanging out at Irreal for any time at all you know that I’ve recently moved my email to mu/mu4e. There are two aspects to that. The first, and the one that I’ve mostly written about, is that … Continue reading →

Those of you who follow the Emacs scene will remember that last year there was a big kerfuffle about whether or not GCC should export its AST so that Emacs, for instance, could use it to provide better syntactic and … Continue reading →

I was trolling through the Emacs tweets when I saw one entitled “Emacs 25.2 Released” with a link to a video. I thought it was going to be a discussion of the new things in Emacs 25.21 but it turned … Continue reading →

Mike Zamansky has video number 33 up in his Using Emacs series. This video discusses Projectile and dumb-jump. As most of you probably know, Projectile is Bozhidar Batsov’s project interaction package for Emacs. It provides handy features for using Emacs … Continue reading →

Arun Isaac makes a nice point. Most of us support open source and insist on our right to have source code available but we hardly ever look at that source. Except for Emacs. Isaac observes that when the documentation is … Continue reading →

Emacs 25.2 is mostly a bug-fix release and I haven’t had any problems so I didn’t bother installing it as soon as it was released. Still, Irreal likes to be up-to-date on all things Emacs so I finally got around … Continue reading →