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Over at the Emacs subreddit, TheTwelveYearOld asks an interesting question: Would Emacs be more popular than Vim if it used modal editing by default? Experienced users will recognize that there’s an unstated premise buried in the question. The premise is … Continue reading →

Irreal is always gathering examples of why and how Emacs can help you in your coding and writing endeavors. Regular features of those examples are Org mode, Magit, and, more recently, LSP. It wasn’t always like that. I’ve only been … Continue reading →

Last week I wrote about Marcin Borkowski’s post on Emacs Everywhere, an application that lets you edit text in other applications with Emacs. As I said then, I’ve been using it for about a year but, shamefully, usually forget to … Continue reading →

Like me, Marcin Borkowski (mbork) hates writing text in anything but Emacs. Sadly, most of us can’t live in Emacs all the time so we sometimes find ourselves having to enter text in some other application. It always ends up … Continue reading →

I’ve noticed that a lot of people treat their editor like a car. Some people like to have more than one and others feel like they should trade them in every couple years. I don’t understand either group but especially … Continue reading →

Another quickie today. Evan Moses has a short post that shows how he solved a problem particular to his workflow. He’s an Evil user, which means that when he wants to save a buffer he types :w. Unfortunately, he’s prone … Continue reading →

For all you Emacs nerds out there here’s a bit of porn. It’s almost like those joke pictures you see of Emacs setups but this one appears to be real. As much as I like the idea of this environment, … Continue reading →

All of us Emacs nerds are familiar with Neal Stephenon’s essay In the Beginning…Was the Command Line, in which he describes Emacs as the thermonuclear word processor. A couple of years ago, he did a podcast with Lex Fridman in … Continue reading →

This post is about another of my browsers tabs that I’ve had open seemingly forever. It’s a curated list of resources for writing with Emacs. As such, it’s a nice coda to my previous post on Emacs writing workflows. It’s … Continue reading →

I’ve written before about Peter Prevos and his Emacs Writing Studio but here’s a bit more. I’ve had this article about the Emacs writing workflow up in my browser for a long while and decided the time had come to … Continue reading →