I’ve been using konsole (and iterm2 on my work mac) for most of my working career, but on the linux side, I’ve recently switched to Kitty, but now I’m wondering if I can finally get used to just using emacs on both....
I wrote this script to learn how completing-read’s complex arguments works. Compared to other clients it’s quite limited; but thanks to packages like Vertico and Orderless, it works quite well for my use cases....
A close friend of mine was “inspired” to write a song by my series of blog articles called “Emacs Fulfills the Unix Philosophy” (actually I think he is busting my chops a bit for being an annoying Emacs evangelist, but anyway…) I thought it was pretty funny and worth sharing here....
I was working with NPM package.json files a lot lately and I often found myself saving them in an unparseable state. json-ts-mode highlights syntax errors in yellow but it wasn’t enough....
A new backend for Gnus which I have been developing for a while was merged today into Emacs - you can now fetch and read Atom feeds right from Gnus....
In vim terminal I use C-[ for ESC to escape from insert mode a lot, but didn’t know C-[ works in GUI version of Emacs until recently. Since Meta can be replaced with ESC, we can enter C-M-s, for example, with C-[ C-s.
As a long time Vimmer, I have recently started using Emacs out of sheer curiosity. I chose Doom Emacs as it has evil-mode enabled by default, and do not want to dive down the rabbit hole of configuring the editor from scratch (at least, not yet!)....
This release brings a host of user-facing refinements to an already stable base, as well as some impressive new features. There is a lot to cover, so take your time reading these notes....
I’m still torn on nvim vs Emacs. I have my Emacs config readt and I’m working on finishing my nvim config, but I’m still switching back and forth and can’t decide. I thought Emacs’ other features would be enough to make me stay but frankly I find myself preferring non-emacs alternatives like cmus over emms and I...