Tag Archives: Emacs

I came across this tweet @sachac In case people don't say this enough, thank you for this weekly #emacs news round-up. I always find something new/useful/cool. — Marc Saegesser (@MarcSaegesser) December 7, 2015 and it reminded me that I’ve been … Continue reading →

Sacha Chua has chatted with John Wiegley several times (see here, here, and here). Wiegley’s an interesting guy and all those chats are well worth watching. Recently, as Irreal readers surely know, Wiegley was named the new Emacs maintainer so … Continue reading →

Over at Coding Quark, Dhavan Vaidya has a nice post on getting started with Emacs. Rather than talk about keybindings and navigation, he concentrates on the things you should do and the resources you should read to get going with … Continue reading →

Eric Cole has an interesting post on decreasing the Emacs load time. This is not something I’ve ever worried about because I tend to load it once when the machine boots and just keep it running. It makes no difference … Continue reading →

Fuco, the author of the excellent smartparens package, has a collection of useful additions to dired. Rather than define a comprehensive package, he broken the functionality out into separate packages so that you can install just what you need. He … Continue reading →

A year ago I wrote about Artur Malabarba’s excellent narrow-or-widen-dwim function. Ever since I installed it, I don’t think I’ve once called one of the narrowing functions directly. Since then, Malabarba has posted some updates to his original post making … Continue reading →

A very handy tip from Wilfred Hughes: Emacs tip: If your instance hangs and won't respond to C-g, you can use `pkill -SIGUSR2 emacs` to force emacs to stop whatever it's doing. — Wilfred Hughes (@_wilfredh) October 28, 2015 Emacs … Continue reading →

Back when Josh Stella was coding, he lived in Emacs. Like many of us, he performed most of his everyday tasks—mail, calendar, documents, coding—from within Emacs. Decades later, he’d become the CEO/co-founder of Luminal and had left Emacs behind. Like … Continue reading →