Tag Archives: Emacs

Thanos Apollo has an interesting post about an almost forgotten Emacs battle: the choice between Bazaar and Git as the new version control system for Emacs. Twenty years ago, Emacs was still using CVS, a venerable RCS that was well … Continue reading →

Charles Choi is back with more menus. Most of you know that I generally eschew the use of Emacs menus but they definitely have a place in seldom used commands whose name or key shortcut are hard to remember. In … Continue reading →

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has an interesting post on the describe-personal-keybindings command. The idea is that the command lists the keybindings that you have set in your configuration. It’s convenient, mbork says, for checking that new Emacs releases haven’t stolen one … Continue reading →

Those of us who have been around long enough remember Sacha Chua’s Emacs Chat videos. The last one was a decade ago but now that Chua’s daughter is a bit older, she’s decided to resurrect them. The first new episode, … Continue reading →

As I mentioned a few days ago, the Emacs 31 release process was on the verge of starting. Now Sean Whitton writes to tell us that the Emacs 31 branch has been created and that the feature freeze has begun. … Continue reading →

Protesilaos (Prot) has an excellent post on keyboard ergonomics for Emacs users. He considers various strategies for making Emacs commands easier to use and less likely to cause RSI damage. He considers everything from split keyboards to evil-mode. He says … Continue reading →

Protesilaos (Prot) has a new, interesting package available: buffer-to-pdf. It does just what its name suggests. It takes the current Emacs buffer and exports it to PDF preserving things like theme, and font characteristics. It’s easy to use. You simply … Continue reading →