Tag Archives: Emacs

I’ve been obsessing and writing about the continuing NSA scandal and as a result we haven’t had any fun with VimGolf for a while. Just in case you’re as rusty as I am, here’s an easy one. Starting with one … Continue reading →

Jamie Zawinski has an interesting old post on Emacs history. It’s a timeline of Emacs versions from Stallman’s, Moon’s, and Steele’s original merger of TECMAC and TMACS in 1976 to Gnu Emacs 22.1 and XEmacs 21.4.21 in 2007. His original … Continue reading →

I just upgraded Org mode to version 8.0.6. I’ve been holding off waiting for org2blog to fix some incompatibilities. Mostly, the transition went smoothly. By following the commentary in the release notes and the new installation instructions I had everything … Continue reading →

The other day, I ran across this 2009 Norwescon interview with Vernor Vinge. Irreal readers will be happy to know that he’s an Emacs user and writes his novels with it. The interview includes a screen shot of his work … Continue reading →

Ever since I remapped Caps Lock to Control I occasionally type 【Shift+X】 instead of 【Ctrl+X】 or vice-versa. Usually this doesn’t make much difference but when I’m in an ibuffer list it invariably causes havoc. The problem normally happens like this: … Continue reading →

Noufal Ibrahim has part 2 of his series on Gnus up. The screencast is about 30 minutes so he broke it into two videos. As with part 1, the screen is too small to be read comfortably, even on my … Continue reading →

Jekor has a new Emacs video up. This time it explores loading packages through ELPA in Emacs 24. The new video continues the excellent production values of the first two. This series is shaping up to be a really useful … Continue reading →

Here’s a nice little trick to help you waste time on the Emacs Wiki. As the Redit post explains, if you navigate to http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/?action=random you get a random page from the Emacs Wiki. It’s easy to imagine building a simple … Continue reading →