Tag Archives: Emacs

I get most of my packages from the MELPA repository and I’m very happy with the results. Some folks object to MELPA because the repository has snapshots of the packages that may not be stable. I’ve seldom had any problems … Continue reading →

Pierre Lecocq has a nice set of Emacs tips for developers. I’ve been meaning to write about it for a while now and Lecocq has recently updated it to include tips for Ruby, Python, C/C++/Objective C, Go, PHP, Java, and … Continue reading →

For her latest chat, Sacha Chua meets up with Phil Hagelberg. A year and a half ago, Hagelberg was featured on The Setup where he had some very interesting things to say about Emacs. I wrote about that here. Chua … Continue reading →

For time, I’ve been unsatisfied with the options for moving between windows. 【Ctrl+x o】is great when there are only two windows in the frame but becomes clumsy when there are three or more. For a long time I’ve been using … Continue reading →

One of the really great tools in Emacs is the Dired/Dired+ package. Recently, Mickey wrote a nice introduction to using Dired to run shell commands on files; I commented on that here. The other day, by happenstance, I found myself … Continue reading →

I recently came across this sketchnote from Sacha Chua. I not sure how I missed emacslife.com but I don’t remember reading anything about it before. The site is a wonderful Emacs resource. It’s got links to tons of posts, articles, … Continue reading →