Tag Archives: Emacs

Mbork has posted a sequel to his highlighting post that I wrote about before. This time he discusses iedit. Mbork says you can think of it as Hi Lock mode with the added capability of editing all the highlighted entries … Continue reading →

Sean Irby has posted his thoughts on why you should be using helm. Irby argues that helm not only makes navigating the Emacs UI easier but also assists in learning Emacs in much the same way that spelling correctors help … Continue reading →

Mbork has another nice post on some of the lessor known corners of Emacs. This time it’s about highlighting words in a buffer. There are lots of ways of doing that, of course, but they have subtle differences that make … Continue reading →

Ustun Ozgur has posted a video in which he demonstrates his package emacs-friends. The idea is that you provide the package with an association list mapping (your name for) an application to it’s executable and the code automatically generates functions … Continue reading →

Davide Giannella has been blogging for some time and has collected a nice set of Emacs tips going back to 2007. Mostly they are the solutions to problems that Giannella ran into and which we could probably figure out for … Continue reading →

We’re getting there: The second pretest of #emacs 25.1 is out! https://t.co/mSPCryLsDB Give it as much testing as you can! — Nicolas Petton (@NicolasPetton) February 14, 2016 Kudos to everyone working on the new release. We all really appreciate your … Continue reading →

Avdi Grimm has posted a nice video demonstrating Artur Malabarba’s autocorrect code. The code is just a bit of Elisp that you paste into your init.el; no packages necessary. Once you have it installed, it allows you to correct a … Continue reading →

Bailey Ling over at bling on software has a great post on tuning Emacs garbage collection. Most of us never think about Emacs garbage collection but Ling shows that it can have an effect on performance. The Emacs garbage collection … Continue reading →