Tag Archives: Emacs

I was reading some of the old posts from the excellent emacs-fu when I came across this post describing how to access root-owned files as a regular user. It was a nice post and cleared up an arcane piece of … Continue reading →

In my ELPA With Emacs 24 post, I documented some of the problems I was having getting ELPA to work with Emacs 24 and showed some Elisp to work around the problem. Fortunately, my readers are a lot smarter than … Continue reading →

DJCB, over at Emacs-Fu, takes note of the new line number command in Emacs 24 that Sivaram wrote about in Got Emacs? and offers up a few suggestions of his own. He shows a very nice trick for accomplishing the … Continue reading →

Many (many) years ago when I was a freshman at RPI, we called the weekly Physics mass lecture “The Magic Show” because the lectures were spectacular demonstrations that illustrated whatever principle we were studying that week. This week I had … Continue reading →

I just installed Emacs 24 and, as expected, everything went very well except for the package system, ELPA. I don’t have very many packages that I load with ELPA so at least the number of problems were limited. First, following … Continue reading →

Back in March, I blogged about installing ELPA in Emacs 23. At the time I pointed to a page by Xah Lee on how to do this. Now that Emacs 24 is out it’s worthwhile revisiting the Emacs package system. … Continue reading →

For those of you who prefer reading to listening, Sacha Chua has posted a transcript of her recent video chat with John Wiegley. As I previously described, the chat was about how Wiegley leverages the power of Emacs to optimize … Continue reading →

Well, new to me anyway. Xah Lee and the folks over at the ErgoEmacs Google+ Group discovered a nifty Emacs command (apparently from a Sacha Chua tweet) that does something I’ve often wanted to do. Suppose you want to kill … Continue reading →

The ever energetic Sacha Chua has a nice video chat up with John Wiegley about Emacs. Wiegley, the author of eshell, is one of those users who pretty much lives in Emacs and he has spent a lot of time … Continue reading →