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Emacs features have a discoverability problem, and we’re chipping away at it one demo at a time.

TL;DR: Get LLMs to do things from Emacs, with gptel and your help.

Continuing my avocation of writing to increasingly niche audiences, today we have a matter at the intersection of several small Venn bubbles: the group of Emacs users who code in Emacs, who use Git (or version control) everywhere, who work using offshoot…

Window management in Emacs gets a bad rap.

TL;DR: “We have X-references at home” Cross-references in Org mode are not as well developed as its (relatively) new citation system.

A modest defense of the rodent So, Emacs and the mouse.

TL;DR: Sometimes Emacs needs a timeout A diamond is very pretty.

Or: Further Musings on the Tedium of Long Key-Chords.

Emacs 29 is getting native Tree-Sitter support, and the buzz is hard to miss.

Addressing an innocuous question about the Notmuch email client’s default behavior took me surprisingly deep into the bowels of the package code.

Are you tired of pressing C-x o repeatedly to switch to the window you want in Emacs?

If you use Emacs for more than editing text, there are many daily occasions to use Emacs as a pager.

This is a post in my Latex editing series, a quick package announcement for better Latex previews.

This is a post in my Latex editing series, an awkward solution to a tiny problem.

Emacs is reasonably consistent across its major-modes in its common usage patterns and keybindings.

One of the first customizations folks make to their Emacs is to hide the menu bar.

Emacs has multiple built-in libraries for folding code, as is the case for most things Emacs.

Ever since Gilles Castel documented his method for taking math notes in real-time in Vim, I’ve noticed Emacs users asking if it’s possible to replicate this level of speed and convenience typing \(\LaTeX\) in Emacs1.

Do not use Elmo.

One of the first things new Emacs users learn is the eval-last-sexp (C-x C-e) command and that Emacs can interpret elisp anywhere it appears.

Update (2024-09-08): Read this article in Japanese at Qiita or at Emacs-JP.

Using an RSS reader instead of visiting Youtube or other social media has many advantages, including that you have to deal with much less energy-sapping, will-eroding clickbait.

Just updated Popper for Emacs with hinting in the echo area: When you toggle a popup, popups for the current context are listed in the echo area along with keyboard hints (M-1 through M-9 by default) to switch to them instantly.

A quick note that I thought might be interesting to document.

Update (2024-10-02): Update for Emacs 29 Update (2024-09-08): Read this article in Japanese at Qiita or at Emacs-JP.

Update (2021-05-18): The inimitable Sacha Chua informs me that the functionality proposed in this post is already included in Emacs 28.

One of the problems with Emacs, especially out of the box, is that its constituents don’t communicate with each other as comprehensively as they ought to.

Wrote a thing to handle the annoying window flood in Emacs: Popper-mode was brewing for years as part of my config, I decided to bind it into reasonable shape and submit to MELPA.

Just a short note for today, as the super-fast-latex post is still cooking: Emacs provides a few mechanisms to manage buffer/window state as a group.

Continuing from last time, here are a dozen more tricks Emacs has up its sleeve that it’s shy about telling you.

Emacs has a reputation for being borderline unusable out of the box, of being bloated but somehow surprisingly bare.

Elfeed, the feed reader for Emacs, is built on several clever ideas.

⨕ Grad student in dynamics and control ⨕ Occasional overthinker

Or “A very short investigation of the mental dynamics of feeling suddenly stupid”.

I’ve dabbled in mindfulness meditation before, but the past three months have been the first uninterrupted period of sustained practice.