Tag Archives: Emacs

Those of you that hang out on Irreal know that I think highly of Charles Choi’s Casual Suite. It’s just what you need for modes that have a lot of seldom used commands or modes that themselves are seldom used. … Continue reading →

Bozhidar Batsov is back with another great post on recent additions to Emacs, This time it’s about transposing things in Emacs. Most experienced Emacs users are familiar with transpose-chars and transpose-words. I’ve heard it suggested the that the use of … Continue reading →

After a considerable amount of back and forth on the Emacs Devel Mailing List, Charles Choi’s Casual Suite has been accepted for inclusion on the NonGnu ELPA repository. If you’re already a Casual user, this makes no substantive difference. You … Continue reading →

Bozhidar Batsov has been blogging up a storm on recent additions to Emacs that make our editing sessions easier. His latest post is about a successor to expand-region, expreg. Batsov has been a heavy user of expand-region for many years. … Continue reading →

As I wrote yesterday, a lot of really interesting posts popped up all of a sudden and I speculated that I might have to break my rule about not covering items that Sacha has already mentioned. I’m giving myself leave … Continue reading →

When it rains, it pours. Sometimes I find it hard to find an interesting topic to write about. Other times, like today, four or five topics pop up. The problem is that today is Sunday and tomorrow Sacha will be … Continue reading →

Over at the Emacs subreddit, alraban tells a nice story about game development with Emacs. The TL;DR is that it’s amazingly good. Alraban isn’t a professional developer but has been a hobbyist since the 80s. He has, several times, tried … Continue reading →

Yi-Ping Pan has an interesting post that recapitulates one of my favorite hobby horses: Emacs is actually a modern day Lisp Machine that happens to ship with an embedded editor. Pan kept trying other editors but always returned to Emacs. … Continue reading →