I’ve started writing this article 1 year ago and for some reason I never finished. Today I’m changing this!1 Some text terminals support mouse clicks in the terminal window (shocking, right?). Some Emacs users would like to use the mouse in terminal Emacs.…

Most Emacs packages need some command to display their version, as that’s useful for debugging purposes (e.g. when submitting a bug report). In the (very) old days each package would have simply some variable with a name like package-version that a command…

Occasionally we’d have bits of configuration that are depending on whether Emacs is running in a terminal or in GUI mode. This article aims to cover how to best handle such situations.1 At first it seems the solution is super simple: (if (display-graphic…

Emacspeak: The Complete Audio Desktop Under Pulseaudio 1. Executive Summary Porting Emacspeak sound environment to Pulseaudio. Un...

How I fixed my site content and went down from 46 HTML validations
errors down to 0!

Emacs's buffers are so much more than their name implies. They're not just a vessel for you to read or write from. Buffers in Emacs host network processes, shells, and transient data. They're also a key part to understanding why Elisp is designed the way…

May you live in interesting times. – an old Chinese curse

Denote is a simple note-taking tool, based on the idea that notes should follow a predictable and descriptive file-naming scheme.

Magit binds M-w to magit-copy-buffer-revision. On my Mac, I use the left Command (⌘) key as the Meta key, though, and wired M-x, M-c, M-v to cut/copy/paste, leaving M-w aka ⌘+W to close the current buffer. ...

A new version of Equake, the drop-down “terminal emulator” for Emacs, should be hitting Melpa shortly. This version includes a number of bug fixes, and some new features.
Jeff Kowalski added code for a “close Equake frame on loss of focus feature” (similar…