Tag Archives: Emacs

The ever industrious Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) just uploaded another nice package to MELPA. It’s a simple little app that displays a font in an Emacs buffer but for those who are on an eternal quest for the perfect font it’s … Continue reading →

I’ve written about Peter Prevos and his Emacs Writing Studio several times [1, 2, 3, 4 ]. It’s a series of articles on using Emacs for long form writing. Now, happily, Prevos has announced that the project—or at least the … Continue reading →

There are some people who prefer to run Emacs in terminal mode. I have no problem with that but I do think that GUI Emacs has so much more to offer that it’s usually the best choice. Sometimes there’s no … Continue reading →

Gene Goykhman over at Flaky Goodness has a nice hint on profiling garbage collection but the technique is more generally applicable. Goykhman wanted to know how much time he was spending in garbage collection while exporting his blog. It turns … Continue reading →

Charles Choi has a very informative post on the Emacs upgrading policy a very informative post on the Emacs upgrading policy. The TL;DR is that by default Emacs’ package.el will not upgrade packages that are builtin. Org is an example … Continue reading →

Most experienced Emacsers recognize the futility of proselytizing for our favorite editor. Basically, no one but the already convinced want to hear about it. They’re sure the bling, menus, and mouse actions offered by those other editors are superior to … Continue reading →

Explaining Emacs to non-users is challenging. A first order explanation is that it’s a text editor but as we all know that’s a pitifully inadequate explanation. As you’re all aware, my default explanation is that it’s a light-weight Lisp Machine … Continue reading →

As most of you know, I’m a huge fan of Elfeed and, of course, Org mode. I use Elfeed to read my feed and I do all my writing and note taking in Org mode. It’s natural, therefore, that I’d … Continue reading →

Over at the Emacs subreddit, kosakgroove has just learned about Emacs registers and considers it a game changer. His post is little more than a headline so all the action is in the comments. Surprisingly—at least to me—many of the … Continue reading →