James Cherti

As an Emacs user, your configuration can easily grow from a few lightweight adjustments to a massive, hundred-package IDE.

Emacs ships with default settings intended for backward compatibility and convenience over strict security.

Emacs automatically applies project-specific configurations through file-local and directory-local (.dir-locals.el) variables when opening a file or directory.

This article presents a set of Emacs Dired configuration changes to enhance file management.

As an Emacs configuration grows, startup time can gradually increase.

Eglot provides built-in LSP support in modern Emacs, giving developers a native interface for autocompletion, linting, and formatting.

By default, scrolling in Emacs recenters the window when point moves off-screen, and rapid scrolling through large, heavily fontified files can introduce noticeable input lag.

Eglot ships with Emacs as a built-in, lightweight LSP client, and its default configuration is sufficient for most projects.

When text is copied from an org-mode or markdown-mode buffer and pasted into another Emacs buffer, its visual formatting can sometimes follow it.

The ispell package serves as the underlying interface in Emacs for communicating with external spell checking programs.

Every millisecond counts during Emacs initialization.

Out of the box, Samsung Galaxy Phones and Tablets are highly responsive, but long-term performance often degrades into noticeable lag.

The single-window package forces Emacs to open buffers in the current active window.

The jc-gentoo-portage repository houses an opinionated, performance-oriented Gentoo Portage (/etc/portage) configuration.

The git-rexec command-line tool recursively locates Git repositories within a directory and executes commands against them, either sequentially or in parallel.