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Over at the Emacs subreddit, jackn3 noticed that a lot of experienced Emacs user describe Emacs as a program that’s fun to use and he wondered if the other redditers felt the same and if so why. The responses to … Continue reading →

Emacs Elements has posted another useful short video. This time it’s about an easy way to use ediff. The first thing he mentions is that you can mark two files in dired and they will be used as the default … Continue reading →

Emacs Elements has a very short video on a relatively unknown but extraordinarily useful command: iedit. It does basically the same job as multiple cursors but is builtin and a bit simpler. It’s less powerful than multiple cursors but is … Continue reading →

Fedora Magazine has an interesting article in which a journalist, odisej, discovers using Emacs as his writing tool. His article is a sort of perfect case study because odisej has no real technical background so his take on using Emacs … Continue reading →

Good news from Eli Zaretskii. In a post to the Emacs Devel list he announced that Emacs 29.2 has been released and is ready for downloading. It’s a maintenance release that fixes some bugs but there are no new features. … Continue reading →

Norman Walsh has an interesting post in which he discusses discovering browsing in Emacs. More specifically, he discovered how to follow a link in an Email and have the result displayed in Emacs. He’s using WebKit with Xwidgets so that … Continue reading →

Back in 2015, I wrote about Josh Stella’s wonderful article on A CEO’s Guide to Emacs. Someone just posted a link to Stella’s post so I took the opportunity to reread it. It seems just as apropos now as it … Continue reading →

Rajasegar Chandran has an interesting and useful post on how to extract text from an Emacs buffer. You wouldn’t think there’s a lot to know but there are at least two wrinkles. First you might not want the whole buffer … Continue reading →