Tag Archives: Emacs

Sean Whitton writes to say that the Emacs development team is planning to start the Emac 31 release process next week. That means that they will cut the Emacs 31 branch and start the process of testing and refining it … Continue reading →

Here are a couple of quickies. Neither one requires much exposition on my part but they are both interesting. In the first, Prot shares what he considers decent default settings for Emacs. Naturally, I don’t agree with all of them … Continue reading →

After reading the sad news that Chris Wellons is abandoning Emacs and the Emacs packages he developed one of my first concerns was for Elfeed. It’s the RSS reader that I depend on everyday for my research and news curation. … Continue reading →

I recently opened my feed to discover this post from Chris Wellons. The TL;DR is that Wellons, after 20 years, is abandoning Emacs for Vim. Folks do that, of course, but Wellons is special because he’s been a prolific author … Continue reading →

Randy Ridenour has an interesting post on Emacs and sunk costs. His post is in reaction to the idea that using Emacs requires a lot of learning and customization and that those efforts are sunk costs. That is, they’re costs … Continue reading →

For those of you who like using your mouse with Emacs, Charles Choi has a post you may find helpful. In it, he lists some keybindings that are helpful when using a mouse in Emacs. I famously eschew the use … Continue reading →

James Cherti has an excellent post describing how to set up a universal folding system. Folding is one of those things that I’m equivocal about. I use it all the time in Org files and couldn’t live without it. On … Continue reading →

As I’ve written many times, only my browner keeps me from doing almost everything in Emacs. Sure, there are some other apps that can’t be brought under the Emacs umbrella, but in many cases, emacs-everywhere allows me to handle text … Continue reading →