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Must Have Emacs Packages In 2025

A few years ago, starting in 2016, I wrote a series of articles (1, 2, 3) about my favorite Emacs packages and tips. Reading them now, almost ten years later, I find they’ve aged well. I still use everything on … Continue reading

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Hacking Emacs File Completion

James Dyer has another in his series of posts describing the sanding down of his workflow. This time he troubleshoots and resolves a problem with minibuffer file completion. His specific problem was that he didn’t like the way fuzzy file … Continue reading

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The McPhee Method

Surprisingly, one of Irreal’s most popular posts was about writing. Even more surprising, the post was about what dictionary you should be using when writing. That article, Draft #4, is from 10 years ago and discusses why you are probably … Continue reading

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Diverted Mode

Álvaro Ramírez and James Dyer have a problem. The same problem. They sometimes need to reindent a region or the entire buffer. That’s easy enough to do. You can select the entire buffer with Ctrl+x h or select the region … Continue reading

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One Last Elevator Pitch

I’m writing this on September 1 so there’s a new theme for the Emacs Carnival. Nonetheless, one final Elevator Pitch showed up in my feed and it seemed worthy of a few words. The post is from Philip Kaluđerčić and … Continue reading

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A Quick Debugging Tip

Álvaro Ramírez had a problem. The SVG header in the buffer of one of his apps was occasionally disappearing. The problem was that he didn’t know where to look for the bug. Then it occurred to him that he could … Continue reading

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Ibuffer Configuration

The Emacs Cat has an informative post on his Ibuffer Configuration. Although it’s built in, ibuffer isn’t enabled by default so you have to load it with require, use-package, or whatever you use for such things. It’s a nice replacement … Continue reading

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Writing Instruction Manuals In Org Mode

JTR over at The Art Of Not Asking Why has an interesting post on how how he writes instruction manuals. The post was in response to a question from someone on Reddit. As for Org Mode itself, he doesn’t have … Continue reading

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Fraga: Elevator Pitch

As you can probably tell, I’ve become obsessed with Emacs Elevator Pitch posts. I find them particularly instructive because they require the writer to boil down what they like about Emacs to its essence. The latest offering is from Eric … Continue reading

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Eric MacAdie’s Elevator Pitch

Although, as I have said, the Emacs elevator pitch is a difficult challenge, several people have stepped forward to meet it. Eric MacAdie is one of those people and has provided his own contribution. His approach is to offer some … Continue reading

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