Today I learned that Emacs 28 added context-menu-mode so that we can easily add context menus. This is a minor mode which you can toggle with
M-x context-menu-mode RET but I added hooks to enable it for text mode and a couple others
(add-hook 'text-mode…

A take on how to create and work with log messages

What features would make autocomplete helpful rather than annoying

I’ve published two new packages for Emacs: - region-bindings.el and common-lisp-modes.el. Both are quite small and were a part of my configuration for a long time, but after small refactoring of my init.el I’ve decided to extract them.
The first one, region…

Combobulate is a package that adds advanced structured editing and movement to many programming modes in Emacs. Here's how it works, and how it can enrich your editing experience in Emacs.

In Project Dispatch Menu with Org Mode Metadata, Denote, and Transient I wrote about using my Denote 📖 notes, written in Org-Mode 📖, to house metadata related to my project.
The tools been working quite well. I now have a means of grouping like paths, either…

Its helped me to standardize my approach to marking up techie language. Keeping it simple the content is either programming stuff or everything else tech related. Sufficiently vauge you see: I writ…

TIL that Emacs Lisp has had generators since 2016, and generators are a cool feature in any language in my opinion! In short, Emacs has the generator.el package as it’s part since version 25.1. The generators are implemented via transforming code and act…

Dired is an Emacs mode providing an interactive interface to navigate and manipulate files. It took me a while to start using it, but it is so efficient that I now spend more time in it than in my…

A take on how to log

Emacs 29 is getting native Tree-Sitter support, and the buzz is hard to miss.
Tree-Sitter maintains and provides a concrete parse tree of the buffer that you can query, but that’s as far as it goes. Acting on this information to provide context-aware navigation…