Tag Archives: Emacs

Elisp To Python Cheatsheat

Posted on 2025-02-06 by jcs

Irreal has often commented on the work of Charles Choi, most recently on his Casual App Suite. Choi has just published a nice cheatsheet for Python programmers who want to write in Elisp. The idea is to compare the various … Continue reading →

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Magit 4.3.0

Posted on 2025-02-05 by jcs

Tarsius (Jonas Bernoulli) has just announced that he’s released Magit 4.3.0. Six months ago, he promised to release a new version every month and this is the sixth such release. Almost everyone loves Magit—there are a few vc holdouts—and considers … Continue reading →

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Emacs Debugging Commands

Posted on 2025-02-04 by jcs

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 →

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Doing It Yourself

Posted on 2025-02-03 by jcs

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 →

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Coming Home To Emacs

Posted on 2025-02-02 by jcs

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 →

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The Experiences Of A Non-technical Emacs User

Posted on 2025-02-01 by jcs

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 →

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Casual Image

Posted on 2025-01-31 by jcs

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 →

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Syncing Orgzly With Emacs

Posted on 2025-01-30 by jcs

One of the goals of many Emacs users is to be able read and write Org entries on their phones or tablets. There are several solutions for this. On the Android platform, one of the most popular was Orgzly. Sadly, … Continue reading →

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Init.el File Organization

Posted on 2025-01-28 by jcs

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 →

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The Problem With Emacs Revisited

Posted on 2025-01-26 by jcs

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 →

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