Tag Archives: Emacs

James Cherti has been busy producing a lot of posts about optimizing various aspects of Emacs behavior. I’ve just come across his post that discusses optimizing buffer line numbering. It explains the different line numbering schemes and their relative costs. … Continue reading →

Three years ago, I wrote about the Bedrock starter kit for Emacs by Ashton Wiersdorf. Now Wiersdorf has issued a new major release of the kit. It’s mainly an update for Emacs 31 and requires that version to run. I … Continue reading →

… I’ve lost track. I’ve been using Jinx for my spelling correction for a while now and really like it. When I first started, my main problem was that the selection procedure described in the documentation didn’t work for me. … Continue reading →

As many of you know, my idea of a theme is to set the background to “oldlace” and the cursor to red. For the rest of it, I just take what Emacs gives me. That sounds pretty haphazard but it … Continue reading →

James Cherti has another excellent post, this time on optimizing Emacs startup with use-package. The idea is that many configurations load a substantial number of packages and that this can cause a significant increase in startup time. Most of you … Continue reading →

As the result of a long standing discussion on the Emacs devel list, Emacs 31 comes with what amounts to a starter kit called newcomers-presets1. The idea is to provide newcomers with a set of useful configurations to help them … Continue reading →

I do a lot of writing, almost all of it in Emacs so I’m always happy to see how other people use our editor of choice for writing. The latest example I’ve found is from JTR over at The Art … Continue reading →

Chris Maiorana has a useful post on directory local variables. The idea is that rather than putting a lot of context specific configuration in your init.el file, you can put those configurations in a .dir-locals.el file and they will be … Continue reading →

Emacs configurations are like well shuffled card decks: no two are alike. But, as Arlo Guthrie famously sang, that’s “not what I came to tell you about”. Rather, this post is about differing organizations for those Emacs configurations. The idea … Continue reading →