Tag Archives: Emacs

James Cherti has another excellent post in his series exploring Emacs optimizations. This one discusses improving Emacs performance on files with long lines. As those of you who have to deal with long lines know, Emacs doesn’t handle them very … Continue reading →

Another great post from James Cherti. This one’s about speeding up Emacs terminal emulators. As Cherti says, Emacs terminals can be slow especially when they get pounded with a lot of output. He offers some suggestions to help. Those changes … Continue reading →

If you’re a macOS user, you probably know about Homebrew, a repository of easy to install apps and libraries. I use it all the time because it’s so much easier than hunting up all the dependencies required for compiling them … Continue reading →

James Cherti has been busy producing a lot of posts about optimizing various aspects of Emacs behavior. I’ve just come across his post that discusses optimizing buffer line numbering. It explains the different line numbering schemes and their relative costs. … Continue reading →

Three years ago, I wrote about the Bedrock starter kit for Emacs by Ashton Wiersdorf. Now Wiersdorf has issued a new major release of the kit. It’s mainly an update for Emacs 31 and requires that version to run. I … Continue reading →

… I’ve lost track. I’ve been using Jinx for my spelling correction for a while now and really like it. When I first started, my main problem was that the selection procedure described in the documentation didn’t work for me. … Continue reading →

As many of you know, my idea of a theme is to set the background to “oldlace” and the cursor to red. For the rest of it, I just take what Emacs gives me. That sounds pretty haphazard but it … Continue reading →