Tag Archives: Emacs

Ian Pan has curated a nice collection of Emacs caught in the wild. By “in the wild” I mean “in popular culture”: things like movies and comics. Most of us have seen the familiar scene from Tron but Pan has … Continue reading →

Daniel Mendler, who took over as maintainer of the world’s best RSS reader, Elfeed, has announced the release of Elfeed 4.0.0. You can read the Change File to see what’s new but the most important point for me is that … Continue reading →

Sean Whitton writes to tell us that the first Emacs 31 pretest, emacs.31.0.90, is available for download. It’s been almost two years since the first Emacs 30 pretest came out so we’re pretty much on schedule for our yearly major … Continue reading →

James Cherti has a new version (Release 1.0.4) of his inhibit-mouse package available. As the name suggests, it disables the mouse while you’re using Emacs. I’ve written about inhibit-mouse before. As I said in my previous post my first thought … Continue reading →

Years ago, when I learned from mbork how to get my own copy of Webster’s 1923 dictionary my dictionary use was vastly improved. If you don’t know why having Webster’s 1923 is a big thing, here’s my original post on … Continue reading →

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about using EWW to avoid paywalls and my experiments to see if it really worked. As I reported, it did in a surprising number of cases. But as I also wrote, I’m not … Continue reading →

As most of you know, I don’t use Gmail or anything else from Google—except YouTube—if I can help it. They have, sadly, moved from “Don’t be evil” to “Do whatever you need to do to make us money”. For reasons … Continue reading →

Just a quickie from Marcin Borkowski (mbork) today. Like many of us, mbork likes to turn on global-auto-revert so that any file open in Emacs that gets changed by an external process has the changes reflected in the Emacs buffer. … Continue reading →