Tag Archives: Emacs

Chris Maiorana has just announced the release of his Emacs for Writers handbook. It’s a 22 page handbook for the writer who would like to escape the confines of “word processors” like Word and its ilk. The handbook doesn’t assume … Continue reading →

Over at the Emacs subreddit, Informal-Silver-2810 says he’s been a Vim/NeoVim user for the last 20 years but decided to try Emacs so he committed himself to a month of using only Emacs. As part of that experiment, he asked … Continue reading →

Over at the Emacs subreddit, Cultural_Mechanic_92 asks How did you become an Emacs power user? It is, I suppose, a reasonable question even if the answer is pretty obvious. The comments are interesting but basically boil down to “you’ll learn … Continue reading →

Over at the Emacs subreddit, iLemming has an interesting video that explores two packages by thanhvg for reading reddit and Hacker News from within Emacs. The two packages are emacs-reddigg and emacs-hnreader. Both packages give you a nice Org buffer … Continue reading →

Just in case you haven’t heard enough whining about Emacs not having “modern” keybindings, arthurno1 over at the Emacs subreddit has a long post on possible ways to reconfigure Emacs to get them. It’s an interesting post because arthurno1 actually … Continue reading →

Some folks like to see a visual indicator of the file type in file listings. In Emacs, this usually means in the Dired listings. Probably the best known way of doing this is the all-the-icons-dired package. It has a set … Continue reading →

The joke about Emacs being an operating system is an old one but lately the idea seems to be being taken more seriously. Here’s the latest example. Significantly, the poster, Bi-Jean, is a self-confessed n00b who doesn’t work in the … Continue reading →

I’ve written several times about Álvaro Ramírez’s DWIM tools [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] and their use in easily invoking command line utilities from the comfort of Emacs. Ramírez has a large collection of such utilities built on the … Continue reading →

My friend and erstwhile colleague Watts Martin has been seeking the one true path of light and virtue. After years of aborted attempts to embrace Emacs, he has, it seems, finally succeeded. Actually, snark aside, I understand his journey. It … Continue reading →