Tag Archives: Emacs

I really like Gnuplot. It can take a bit of raw data and produce a first class graph in many different formats. There are two problems: It’s command set is truly baroque and hard to learn I don’t use it … Continue reading →

The other day when I wrote about Álvaro Ramírez’s elevator pitch post, I mentioned that one of the things I liked was that his list of unexpected tasks that you could accomplish with Emacs contained links to posts where he … Continue reading →

Jeremy Friesen, who is hosting this month’s Emacs Carnival, has his own offering for the Elevator Pitch. As I said before [1, 2] the elevator pitch is particularly difficult because you have to make a persuasive case for Emacs in … Continue reading →

Álvaro Ramírez has weighed in on the Emacs Elevator Pitch challenge. Like Randy Ridenour’s response, Ramírez captures the spirit of the challenge perfectly. His answer is, to be sure, much longer than Ridenour’s but it’s easy to imagine it actually … Continue reading →

On Monday, Marcin Borkowski (Mbork) published a post on extracting a video clip from within Emacs. It seemed like a useful tool to have and I was going to write about it but Sacha mentioned it on Emacs News before … Continue reading →

When you open a file, do you like Emacs to remember where you were when you last visited the file and return you to that place? I’m probably a minority but I find that behavior annoying. Of course, I can … Continue reading →

Eli Zaretskii writes that Emacs 30.2 has been released and is ready for download. It’s a bug fix release but still worth installing. As usual, I built mine from source. I had a bit of difficulty downloading the tar and … Continue reading →