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Describe Package

Just the other day when I was writing the post about Steve Purcell’s rewrite of whole-line-or-region, I wanted to ensure that I had the latest version of whole-line-or-region to make sure there weren’t any gotchas after an upgrade. I did … Continue reading

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An Update for whole-line-or-region

Most of you probably know Steve Purcell as the man behind MELPA or perhaps for his Emacs configuration, which many use as a starter kit. But, in fact, he’s the author or maintainer of numerous packages, one of which is … Continue reading

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Red Meat Friday: The Best Editor

Today’s Red Meat Friday offering is from Steve Purcell. It’s his pinned tweet: Emacs is the best editor. https://t.co/9uTyGsSxKo — Steve Purcell 🇪🇺 (@sanityinc) November 30, 2019 To some of us, this is completely obvious but others may find it … Continue reading

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Zamansky 66: An Eshell Switcher

Mike Zamansky has another video up in his Using Emacs Series. The video is about his trying to use eshell more and building an eshell switcher so that he can easily switch among his active eshell instances. I really like … Continue reading

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Just A Reminder…

…of why I call Steve Purcell an Open Source hero: Incredible! MELPA has passed 100 million package downloads. Thanks, everyone, for your support since 2012. 😍 pic.twitter.com/GRRtWS6btQ — Steve Purcell 🇪🇺 (@sanityinc) October 9, 2019 As I’ve said before, Purcell … Continue reading

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A Reminder about MELPA

If you’re anything more than a casual Emacs user, one of your most important resources is almost certainly the MELPA package repository. I’ve mentioned this before but apparently a reminder is needed: MELPA is a voluntary operation run by Steve … Continue reading

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Proced on the Mac

Four and a half years ago I wrote about proced and Mickey’s excellent post about it. Sadly, it didn’t work on the Mac so I forgot about it until I saw this tweet from psnebc: #emacs #proced alternative to #htop … Continue reading

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Elisp Slime Nav

A few months ago, I stumbled across elisp-slime-nav and decided to try it out. For some reason—lost to the mists of time—I didn’t write about it at then. That’s too bad because it’s a really useful package that anyone who … Continue reading

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Some Oldies but Goodies Updated—Part 1

About 15 months ago, I wrote a post, Some Oldies but Goodies, that talked about some of the packages that I found most useful in my day-to-day work. On rereading that post, I find that it’s aged well in the … Continue reading

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Some Oldies but Goodies

When I find a useful Emacs package or tip, I almost always write about it so others can take advantage of them too. The other day I was using one of those packages and thought, “Gee, this is really neat. … Continue reading

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