Tag Archives: Emacs

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Tsoding’s video on the annoying usefulness of Emacs. His conclusion was that you should stay away from Emacs because once you try it, you will never be able to break free. Now … Continue reading →

I’m a long time user of Ctrl+x 8 Return for inserting arbitrary Unicode characters. I use it, for instance to insert the red meat character (🥩) for my Red Meat Friday posts. For mundane accents like é, I use ivy-insert-org-entity … Continue reading →

Any serious Emacs user is apt to have a lot of minor modes active at any given time. That’s certainly true in my case. What we don’t need, though, is to see lighters for each and every one of them. … Continue reading →

One of the worst things I can imagine in my blogging workflow would be to be unable to use Emacs for writing my posts. Word Press does have an editor for writing posts, of course, but I have never used … Continue reading →

Tsoding has an interesting—possibly tongue in cheek—video that argues that Emacs is annoyingly useful. He begins by saying that he doesn’t like Emacs because it is “yanky and hacky”. Part of the problem, he says, is that Emacs has been … Continue reading →

Another quickie for those of you who prefer using Emacs in the terminal. The default Emacs action for Ctrl+w is to delete the current region. In most shells, Ctrl+w deletes the previous word. Srijan Choudhary found this a little disconcerting … Continue reading →