Tag Archives: Emacs

A Short Report On Help Focus

Posted on 2026-04-18 by jcs

Earlier this week I wrote about Bozhidar Batsov’s post on short Emacs configuration hacks. As I mentioned then, my favorite was a simple configuration variable that causes the Help buffer to get focus when you open it. It’s easy to … Continue reading →

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LaTeX Preview In Emacs

Posted on 2026-04-16 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, _DonK4rma shows an example of his mathematical note taking in Emacs. It’s a nice example of how flexible Org mode is even for writing text with heavy mathematical content but probably not too interesting to … Continue reading →

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Switching Between Dired Windows With TAB

Posted on 2026-04-15 by jcs

Just a quickie today. Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has a very nice little post on using Tab with Dired. By default, Tab isn’t defined in Dired but mbork suggests an excellent use for it and provides the code to implement his … Continue reading →

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Alfred Snippets

Posted on 2026-04-14 by jcs

Today while I was going through my feed, I saw this this post from macosxguru over at Bicycle For Your Mind. It’s about his system for using snippets on his system. The TL;DR is that he has settled on Typinator … Continue reading →

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Some Config Hacks

Posted on 2026-04-13 by jcs

Bozhidar Batsov has an excellent post that collects several configuration hacks from a variety of people and distributions. It’s a long list and rather than list them all, I’m going to mention just a few that appeal to me. Some … Continue reading →

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Days Until

Posted on 2026-04-12 by jcs

Charles Choi recently saw a Mastodon post showing the days until the next election and started wondering how one would compute that with Emacs. He looked into it and, of course, the answer turned out to be simple. Org mode … Continue reading →

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Magit Support

Posted on 2026-04-11 by jcs

Just about everyone agrees that the two Emacs packages considered “killer apps” by those considering adopting the editor are Org mode and Magit. I’ve seen several people say they use Emacs mainly for one or the other. Their development models … Continue reading →

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Tolerance For Repetition

Posted on 2026-04-08 by jcs

Floofcode over that the Emacs subreddit asks a question that resonates with me. He notes that he often has a repetitive task and wonders whether it would be worthwhile writing some Elisp to automate it. Usually, he has to repeat … Continue reading →

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Karthik On Repeat Mode

Posted on 2026-04-07 by jcs

The other day, I wrote about repeat mode. My take was that it was a way repeating certain commands without having to retype their, possibly, complex prefixes. All of that is true but as Karthik informed me in a comment, … Continue reading →

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Read Extended Command Predicate

Posted on 2026-04-06 by jcs

Bozhidar Batsov has a post that mentions how M-x shows a lot of commands many of which make no sense in the current context. This has never bothered me because after inputting a few (fuzzy) letters, the display converges on … Continue reading →

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