Tag Archives: Emacs

Randy Ridenour is living proof that you don’t have to be a young nerd to master Emacs and Elisp. Ridenour, a professor of Philosophy, has shown repeatedly that it’s possible for a nontechnical person to become sufficiently proficient with Emacs … Continue reading →

Charles Choi has a nice post on simulating the Unix at command with Emacs. Back in the old days, Choi used to use the Unix at command to notify himself of various events. In macOS, the at command is disabled … Continue reading →

As you all know by now, I’m not a Google fan and generally avoid using their products. The one exception is YouTube for videos. Apparently, YouTube also has a radio channel, which is a sort of music streaming service. I … Continue reading →

Bozhidar Batsov has an excellent post that considers structured editing using builtin Emacs commands. It turns out that all those commands (like forward-sexp) that you think of as Lisp-specific commands work in many other modes. The secret is that the … Continue reading →

Charlie Holland has a followup to his post on Emacs Help that I wrote about the other day. It’s a reconsidered, condensed version of the original post. As Holland puts it, This is a condensed version of my very long … Continue reading →

Rahul M. Juliato has an informative post on what’s coming in Emacs 31. Juliato doesn’t mind living on the edge and has been tracking and using Emacs from the Master and emacs-31 branches. He says he likes to know “what’s … Continue reading →

Charlie Holland has a very nice contribution to June’s Emacs Carnival about underappreciated Emacs builtins. His post is about the Emacs help system and how you can use it to learn everything about Emacs. It’s a commonplace to say that … Continue reading →

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has a useful post on scrolling PDFs in the other window. He wants to use the familiar Ctrl+Meta+v and Ctrl+Meta+Shift+v shortcuts for pdf-tools. Sadly, these don’t work for scrolling PDFs but as mbork says, “… [I]t’s Emacs, … Continue reading →