Tag Archives: Emacs

Last month, I had three (1, 2, 3) posts on how people are integrating their Google Calendars with Emacs. The common idea was to be able to see some or all of the calendar items in Emacs. Mike Zmansky’s solution … Continue reading →

As I’ve written before, I maintain an almost exclusively digital workflow. About 8 years ago I banished pads, pens, and pencils from my desk and started taking notes and doing other record keeping chores on my computers and iOS devices. … Continue reading →

A few days ago I wrote about Mike Zamansky’s video on rectangles. Most of my commentary involved ways of dealing with the difficulty of remembering the rectangle commands and their key chords. One of the solutions I discussed was which-key, … Continue reading →

Apropos of yesterday’s post, I came across this query on Reddit and learned a new keystroke. One of the counterintuitive peculiarities of Elisp—and Lisps in general—is that a value defined by defvar or defcustom is immutable: once set it can’t … Continue reading →

Never, apparently I started using EMACS with Gosling Emacs in 1987. I'm still learning useful new key chords 30 years later. #oldcoder #emacs — awadelewis (@awadelewis) February 7, 2017

Mike Zamansky has posted number 28 in his Using Emacs video series. This one is about rectangle editing. As Zamansky says, you don’t often need this but when you do it’s really handy. My problem with it is that because … Continue reading →

Emacs 25.2 is on its way. Nicolas Petton has announced that Emacs 25.2 RC1 is out.