Tag Archives: Emacs

Over at Emacs Redux, Bozhidar Batsov has a nice post on Emacs debugging commands. It’s not the first time that I’ve written about this sort of thing (see here, for instance) but unless you’re actively developing in Elisp, you probably … Continue reading →

James Dyer has a short post on replacing some embark functionality with his own code. He does a nice job and you can check his post for the details but his post again raises the issue of why some users … Continue reading →

Joshua Blais has a nice video that recounts an apostate’s repentance. Blais was an Emacs user but moved to Neovim. Users always seem to be switching back and forth between Emacs and Vim. They are, after all, the only two … Continue reading →

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a reddit post that asked what computer/OS people were using. Nuno M. Salgueiro replied that he was not a programmer or even in IT but that he used Emacs at home on … Continue reading →

Charles Choi is back with another app in his Casual Suite. This time it’s for dealing with images from within Emacs. As Choi says, there are better ways of dealing with images than from within Emacs but for those of … Continue reading →

Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) has another really excellent video up. This time it’s about organizing your Emacs configuration file. Prot looks at two possible approaches. The first is to use the built-in outline mode and appropriately marked comments to have an … Continue reading →

Way back in 2005, Steve Yegge wrote a wonderful post, the-emacs-problem, that discussed why Lisp is the right language for dealing with text and why Emacs is the right tool for dealing with it. A few years later I wrote … Continue reading →