Tag Archives: Emacs

There’s a long simmering debate among hardcore Emacsistas about who what did what in the initial development of Emacs. Most of us know that Emacs began as a curated set of editing macros for the TECO editor. At the MIT … Continue reading →

It’s getting harder and harder to keep up with Charles Choi and his casual-suite. He’s announced yet another app in the suite. This time it’s for bookmarks. Like the other apps in the collection, casual-bookmarks captures all the hard to … Continue reading →

Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) has an excellent video on the fundamentals of the use-package macro. If you’re new to Emacs or are one of the few Emacs users who isn’t constantly tweaking your init.el, use-package is a macro you use in … Continue reading →

Nathan Dawit Chane has an interesting post on his journey from Vim to Emacs. I can relate to it because his journey is eerily similar to mine. Like him, I spent many years as a Vim user and could be … Continue reading →

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has a very interesting post on something I didn’t know about: dedicated windows. The TL;DR is that dedicated windows are restricted—more or less—to the single buffer that they were displaying when they were set to dedicated. Mbork’s … Continue reading →

I just got a notice from Mickey that the latest version of Mastering Emacs is out. It is, when you think about it, a modern miracle. You buy a really great book on Emacs once and keep getting the new … Continue reading →

A couple of week ago I wrote about Álvaro Ramírez’s ready player mode. The idea is to be able to take a quick peek at a media file from within Emacs. At the time, the app was still beta quality … Continue reading →

I recently wrote about Casual RE Builder, one of Charles Choi’s Casual Suite apps. As I wrote then, it goes a long ways towards making RE-builder usable for those of us who can’t remember all the commands necessary to export … Continue reading →

Kris Brandow has a (very) short video—I think it’s part of a podcast—advancing the idea that you should learn Vim or Emacs. Irreal, of course, is not going to argue with that but I wish he’d given more reasons why … Continue reading →