Tag Archives: Emacs

Bozhidar Batsov has a post that claims something I’ve often said: Emacs startup time doesn’t matter. No one is saying that your editor taking 30 seconds to start is acceptable but by and large the people you see worrying about … Continue reading →

Like most people, I use setq to set user options in my Emacs configuration. It’s the canonical way of setting a variable in just about any Lisp. But, as Bozhidar Batsov says, it’s not always the best way of setting … Continue reading →

Being a basically boring guy, I almost always have a full screen frame with two side-by-side windows for Emacs. For some functions—Magit and Elfeed are examples—I temporarily pop up a single full frame window but the previous window configuration is … Continue reading →

Yesterday, I explained why I think Journelly will be useful to me. Today, I want to follow up with my initial impressions of the app. As I wrote before, I recently signed up for the Journelly beta and have been … Continue reading →

Over at The Art Of Not Asking Why, JTR suspects that I may be an apostate, or at least that I’m inconsistent. He notes, correctly, that I’m all in on Emacs in general and Org mode in particular, and yet … Continue reading →

I just came across a link to this recently updated book on the plain text computing environment. It was, apparently, first written to describe Emacs 19.29 around 1997. That was a long time ago and Emacs has evolved considerably since … Continue reading →

Here’s yet another post commenting on something that Bozhidar Batsov wrote on Emacs Redux. I like to write about his posts because they typically look at some Emacs functionality that we all thought we knew about and tells us things … Continue reading →

I’ve written a couple of times about Álvaro Ramírez’s Journelly [1, 2] and how it seemed like a good fit for my memo book needs. In the last of those posts, Ramírez announced that he was starting an official beta … Continue reading →

Bozhidar Batsov has posted another in his long list of informative Emacs posts. This time, it’s about configuring Emacs garbage collection. The principal way of doing that is to set gc-cons-threshold to a higher value than its default of 80000. … Continue reading →

Over at The MKat, Marie K. Ekeberg has a post that brings me back to my earliest days of using Emacs. Before I was assimilated, I tried several times to warm up to Emacs but it wouldn’t take. Ekeberg’s post … Continue reading →