Tag Archives: Emacs

iLemming has an interesting post on Hacker News about why younger engineers don’t use Emacs and why they should. You may find the post a bit overwritten but I especially like the ending: The specialized app user lives in rented … Continue reading →

Lately, I written a few posts about Emacs-induced RSI and various strategies for overcoming it. For example, my post on The Best Emacs Keyboard seemed to strike a chord with many Irreal readers. One thing that almost everyone agreed on … Continue reading →

Lynn Leichtle over at Lynn has an interesting post on using Emacs as a Guix file manager. Almost all of my work these days takes place in the Apple milieu so, of course, I’m not a Guix user and can’t … Continue reading →

Kay Lack has an interesting video on the ed editor. As the cognoscenti know, ed is the standard Unix editor, even though virtually no one uses it anymore. The reason for that is that ed was designed for teletypewriters and … Continue reading →

If you’re one of those people who obsess about making every Emacs operation as fast as possible, James Dyer has quick tip for you. Dyer uses Dired a lot and one of his common operations is to search for a … Continue reading →

When the Eagles disbanded after a particularly contentious Long Beach concert where Glenn Frey and Don Felder almost came to blows, Don Henley quipped that the band would get back together when Hell freezes over. Fourteen years later the band … Continue reading →

There’s been a spate of posts lately about navigating among windows in Emacs and The Emacs Cat decided to jump in with a description of their own procedures. I like those procedures because they are essentially the same as mine. … Continue reading →

After the official release of Journelly 1.0, Álvaro Ramírez has not been sitting on his laurels. He has a long list of feature requests from his beta testers and new users and has already released Journelly 1.1 that implements many … Continue reading →

In response to my post on the best emacs keyboards, Paul Jorgensen has a very interesting post of how he leverages software to turn the standard Apple keyboards into Emacs specific keyboards and make them better suited to his needs … Continue reading →