The Emacs Cat

Just recently I upgraded one of my Dell laptops to the latest Ubuntu 26.04 LTS with a clean install.

Introduction In my years of using Emacs, I’ve noticed a common pattern: developers who are highly proficient at editing source code in Emacs switch to a “normal IDE” (as they call it)—such as CLion or Visual Studio—when they need to debug their code.

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I recently came across a Reddit post titled How to group buffers that are important to visit later which discusses various methods for buffer grouping in Emacs.

These days, I’ve come across numerous posts and Reddit threads praising Org mode as one of the most compelling features of Emacs.

These days, I use three different operating systems at work and home: Ubuntu Linux (Dell Latitude 7490 13" laptop), Microsoft Windows (Dell Latitude 7400 13" laptop), and macOS (27" iMac).

Last week there were some quite interesting posts about windows management in Emacs — Emacs’ windows navigations and some Emacs zen (a review by Irreal), Emacs window management tweaking, for instance.

I do almost all my text editing in Emacs, and it would be worth to store the last modified date/time of a file — org/plain text/source code/whatever — in the file, without consulting the file system.

To read my newspapers I load my RSS feed via the elfeed package. … Also, I identify any RSS feed entry that does not provide the full text.

Software reproducibility testing is a critical aspect of software development and maintenance.

C++ is my primary programming language since – I can’t believe it myself – 1991 (yes, it was Turbo C++).

Python is one of my programming languages I’m using for both work and home life – no doubt, I’d want to use Emacs as an IDE for Python programming.

Some time ago, I decided to customize my Emacs startup screen in order to display something helpful for me.

In his comment on Irreal’s post Some Configuration To Solve Common Problems, gregbognar noted that some of my configuration is seriously outdated.

After reading the quite interesting post Blue Sky by Mike Zamansky I decided to begin my gentle migration to Bluesky, a new and promising social media platform.

I’m happy to be back after one year away and it feels great.

After reading a quite interesting post by Irreal on Org mode clock tables, I decided to share my — a bit specific — experience with the subject.

Recently, I’ve discovered a number of posts on Reddit — like tree-sitter-hl-mode does not do anything or How to use Emacs 29 Tree-sitter?

I’m a big fan of Eshell, but some things in Eshell look, hmm, a bit strange.

Irreal has recently published a post with a reference to the Vernon Grant’s emacs-keyboard-shortcuts README that contains a list of Emacs keyboard shortcuts Vernon uses on a regular basis.

If you are an emacser, you are probably already following the Sacha Chua’s blog.

As it’s described in the GNU Emacs Manual, an abbreviation or abbrev is a string of characters that may be expanded to a longer string.

Do you use #Emacs to run shells or terminal emulators?

Working with satellite data I often have to convert a coordinate value or an angle value from the DMS notation (degree@minute’second") to a decimal degree in the floating point number format and vice versa.

I started this blog in 2017.

About The Emacs Cat My first attempt to dive into the vast ocean of Emacs was in 1997, over 25 years ago.