Tag Archives: Emacs

I just saw a reference to Pallet on reddit. It’s a way of syncing your Emacs packages across several machines. For example, you might, like me, have several machines and want your ELPA configuration to look the same on all … Continue reading →

Over at the Emacs subreddit, MoreHugs is gnashing his teeth and beating his brow over the fact that the Emacs UI is not pretty enough for some users and thus inhibits uptake. Why, he wonders, can’t Emacs have a nice … Continue reading →

There were a lot of good solutions to this challenge. I thought the interesting part would be switching the character entries in the table. If you are just before the first character pair vector, you can do that in 5 … Continue reading →

Nic Ferrier, the creator of elnode and the proprietor of Marmalade, gave an interesting Skills Matter talk on what the coming year will mean for Emacs. The video is about an hour and a quarter so plan appropriately. The talk … Continue reading →

Via Magnar Sveen’s Emacs Rocks! twitter feed I came across this retweet pointing me at Richard Dillon’s Emacs videos. It’s a set of 13 videos on using Emacs intended mostly for those inexperienced with Emacs. He covers several topics including … Continue reading →

On Emacs Rocks!, Magnar Sveen announced that he’s added a mouse interface to the excellent multiple-cursors package. Amusingly, the first two replies were Excellent!!!! This is the beginning of the end! I pretty much ignore the mouse when I’m in … Continue reading →

Is Emacs an IDE? Here’s one answer. Here’s another: who knows, who cares? You might as well ask if Emacs is a fingdop. Emacs is what it is regardless of whether or not we call it an IDE (or fingdop, … Continue reading →