Tag Archives: Emacs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, surveypoodle asks a perennial question: what are the best keyboards for Emacs? He points out that Emacs pinky seems to have appeared rather late in the editor’s history and speculates that that’s because the keyboards … Continue reading →

Courtesy of JTR from The Art Of Not Asking Why, here’s a handy tip for dealing with window placement when bringing up a Dired buffer. There are two problems. The first doesn’t really concern window placement. Most often JTR wants … Continue reading →

Charles Choi makes an astute observation about the Emacs initialization file from the point of view of the new user: there’s no obvious way of loading it or even knowing that it exists. The problem is especially acute on the … Continue reading →

Over at the Emacs subreddit, sebhoagie has a short post that some of you may find useful. Sebhoagie really likes narrowing and uses it all the time. Sometimes, though, the narrowed code refers to code outside the narrowed region and … Continue reading →

MarchZealousideal543 over at the Emacs subreddit asks a familiar question: Is it really feasible or even possible for a non-programmer to use Emacs productively? I know I write about this a lot but I find the subject fascinating. MarchZealousideal543 got … Continue reading →

If you’re one of those brave folks who doesn’t mind browsing the Web from within Emacs, I just came across a package that may interest you. It’s emacs-websearch a small utility that lets you specify a term, search for it … Continue reading →

Hooray. Journelly, which I think of as an iOS front end for Emacs’ Org mode, has been officially released. For those of you who have been waiting for an official release to try it out, your time has come. I’ve … Continue reading →

The Emacs mode line contains a wealth of information, much of which I depend on daily. Some of that information is what the major mode is and what minor modes are active. Again, that’s often useful information. Still, there are … Continue reading →