A prototype of querying English text!

After switching (think) to Minimal Mistakes I’ve been doing some small improvements to the site’s structure and content. I thought it might be a good idea to summarize them here:

Hm.. I wonder what this does? :) #emacs

A Static HTML Generator for Emacs and Org-Mode

Doom Emacs has
editor/fold
module which makes folding code simple

When clj-refactor 3.0 was released, I promised you that the release of CIDER 1.2 wasn’t far behind. However, an entire month has passed since then and CIDER 1.2 is still brewing. Turned out there was more work to be done than I expected, that’s why I decided…

Recently I came across this tweet about Emacs and its users:

I don’t know about you, but from time to time I definitely have the need to re-run some Emacs command that takes user input (e.g. query-replace). For the purpose of this article let’s call such commands “complex” commands. Obviously we can just invoke the…

Announcing Emacspeak 55.0—CalmDog! The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work. – Donald E. Knuth 1. F...

Just a scant handful of decades after XEmacs introduced a mode line with proportional fonts, we’re thinking about doing the same in Emacs. Here’s how the mode line looks (by default) in…

Typing M-x compilation-shell-minor-mode in #emacs gives you the same compilation error highlighting as M-x compile does, but in M-x shell (and anywhere else, for that matter). M-g M-n and M-g M-p works as you'd expect.

This article is a quick follow-up on yesterday’s post on redoing complex commands. I’ve noticed today that the popular Emacs package consult offers a much more powerful version of the built-in repeat-complex-command command. The consult version is named consult…

Emacspeak In The Age Of Cloud Computing 1. Executive Summary Emacspeak has supported Cloud Computing since 1995, i.e., long before t...

In October I joined Forem as the lead engineer for the content experience team. I’ve been contributing to open source software for 9 years; Hello Samvera.org; I miss you but I promise I’m in a good place.
Coming from one open source community to another,…

When you edit org files, sometimes you want to emphasize words like
code or verbatim.

A couple of years ago I wrote an article about dealing with typos in your source code. Today I’ll follow up with a simple recipe to automate this spell-checking process using GitHub Actions (GHA).1 Lately I’ve been adding the following GHA workflow to all…