I Finally Reached Computing Nirvana. What Was It All For?
A journey involging Emacs, kinda.
Announcing Casual Image
A new major mode for Emacs that allows for easy image editing.
Fixing error -54 with Emacs on macOS
On my older Intel MacBook Pro I ran into permission errors when trying to run Emacs, as installed via emacs-plus via Homebrew. This is the workaround.
My Emacs eye candy
Neat blog post about how someone configures their Emacs, which some fun and interesting things within.
What's New in Emacs: Last Decade Edition
Some folk use Emacs out of the box, and never realise just how much more it can do if you sprinkle some of the newer stuff over your configuration. This article does a good job of explaining some of those additions.
p3r7/awesome-elisp: A curated list of Emacs Lisp development resources
One of those “awesome list” lists, of all things Emacs Lisp.
Emacs Docs
The main GNU Emacs documentation, but in a very attractive online form.
History Of Font Lock In Emacs
Nice background on why font lock is actually called font lock in Emacs.
Debugging Elisp Part 1: Earn your independence · Endless Parentheses
Straightfoward guide to debugging Emacs lisp.
Emacs bulk indent for Python - Stack Overflow
How to indent a region in Emacs, ignoring the current mode's indentation rules. I'm often needing to do this in Python and keep forgetting how.
Org-mode Hidden Gems: Document Structure
Nice post about some "hidden gems" in org mode.
Let's Get Going With Org mode - beorg
A very gentle introduction to org mode.
ghub-use-workaround-for-emacs-bug will break in emacs 25 for gitlab · Issue #89 · magit/ghub
Issue relating to a TLS problem with Emacs and forge, at the moment. Contains details of a useful workaround.
if-let, when-let, thread-first and thread-last
Good little introduction to flow control macros that were introduced in Emacs 25.1.
Towards a Cleaner Emacs Build – Random Thoughts
Blog post about the cleaning up of lots of warnings in the compilation of Elisp code in Emacs itself.
Emacs officially named in November 1976
Little tweet thread of emails that record the naming of Emacs.
Switching back to Emacs causes the warning "recentf mode: Non-character input-event". · Issue #5554 · syl20bnr/spacemacs
While I don't use Spacemacs myself (this isn't actually a Spacemacs issue), I'm getting this a lot on my iMac and Macbook; especially when I've woken them from sleep.
Emacs users are like Igor
An amusing description of your average Emacs user.
EmacsConf - Main Page
The Emacs conference. The 2019 conference is online.
Projectile ignoring .projectile files : emacs
Helpful comment on configuring projectile so that it finds a project under strict control. I want to be fully in control of what appears to be a project, and this is what I needed.
osx - How to Restore File System Access in macOS Catalina - Emacs Stack Exchange
Solution to the problem of Emacs being denied access to the likes of ~/Documents on macOS Catalina.
Ultra-minimalist presentation minor-mode for Emacs org-mode.
Nice simple presentation mode for Emacs and Org.
Getting Boxes Done
Useful essay on how one person manages their data with Org.
emacs-piper
Package for using Emacs in a more shell-like way, but while doing it in a very Emacs-like way. Contains interactive tools for pipeline manipulation, as well as a scripting language, of sorts
EmacsConf 2019 - Videos
Videos from the 2019 online EmacsConf
Emacs Lisp Animations
Potentially useful and fun introduction to programming in Emacs Lisp, that actually gives results people might enjoy.
A Makefile for Emacs Packages « null program
Good blog post that talks about effective use of Makefiles when building and managing Emacs Lisp code.
Exploring Emacs chart Library
Despite using it since the mid 1990s, I'd never noticed that Emacs had acquired a pretty good charting library. This blog post is a pretty good introduction to it.
Getting Started With Org Mode - YouTube
Very good gentle introduction to Org-mode.
A Personal Emacs Package Repo | Irreal
That time someone blogged about my Emacs config.