Tag Archives: Emacs

Why Isn’t There An Emacs 2?

Posted on 2024-11-07 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, Available-Inside1426 asks why there isn’t an Emacs 2. By that he means a rewrite of Emacs to address what he sees as problems with Emacs. Those problems include the usual silliness like a better GUI … Continue reading →

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Adding A Year Tag From A Capture Template

Posted on 2024-11-04 by jcs

James Dyer has a good idea for organizing his org-based notes. It’s simple: add a year tag to each note. It helps to organize the notes and makes it easy to filter them by year. When he first implemented the … Continue reading →

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TSV To Table

Posted on 2024-11-01 by jcs

Philippe Gaultier has an interesting post on making a table of project dependencies. He’s using Rust, for which there is a tool to produce a tab-delimited (TSV) file of dependencies. The problem, for Gaultier, is that the output is not … Continue reading →

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Define Alternatives

Posted on 2024-10-31 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has an excellent post concerning a function I didn’t know about. It helps with the following problem: suppose you have a function with several implementations, want to access them with a single function name, and need to … Continue reading →

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Who Created Emacs

Posted on 2024-10-29 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, FirmSupermarket6933 asks who really created Emacs. He cites various sources claiming that RMS did or did not create it. Is he responsible only for GNU Emacs or was he there from the beginning? Sadly the … Continue reading →

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Casual Redux

Posted on 2024-10-28 by jcs

Charles Choi has a new announcement about his Casual package. Several of his users encouraged him to offer Casual to Emacs core or Elpa. He did that and, of course, he got push back. The main complaint was that there … Continue reading →

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Second Pretest For Emacs 30.1

Posted on 2024-10-26 by jcs

Andrea Corallo just announced that Emacs.30.0.92, the second pretest for Emacs 30.1, is now available from https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-30.0.92.tar.xz. The associated signature file is at https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-30.0.92.tar.xz.sig. If you can, the developers would like you to try it out and report any problems. … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: An Old Meme

Posted on 2024-10-25 by jcs

This one’s for you Vimistas. It’s an old meme, for sure—indeed, the post is 10 years old—but still good for a laugh. I vaguely remember a couple of (non-editor) products named “Emacs” but “Vim” definitely has the cleanser market cornered. … Continue reading →

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Hiding Dired Details

Posted on 2024-10-24 by jcs

Álvaro Ramírez has another tweak to his Dired display environment. This time it’s a patch to hide the absolute path of the current directory in Dired listings. Ramírez likes to display minimal information in his Dired listings because, as he … Continue reading →

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Emacs-kick

Posted on 2024-10-23 by jcs

As many of you know, I’m fascinated by nontraditional users of Emacs. By “nontraditional users” I mean people outside of engineering and the sciences. I like to hear how novelists and people in the humanities leverage the power of Emacs … Continue reading →

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