Most command line programs that offer line editing -- like bash, Python, GDB, psql, sqlite and more -- do so using GNU readline. Readline's a powerful library that grants history, completion, movement and editing to programs that use it --- and a stable and…

Information about the latest version of my colourful-yet-legible themes for GNU Emacs.

Over on /r/emacs the community has been answering What are your favorite packages for improving vanilla emacs text editing?
Such a great thread; folks sharing their favorite packages.
Personally I learned about symbol-overlay and am giving it a spin.

Yesterday I had a very frustrating start of my day for the most unexpected of reasons - a (supposedly) simple CPU cooler upgrade for my desktop computer turned into a nightmare. It was also a very educational experience and reminded me about a few valuable…

How to configure Denote so that it can write notes in an arbitrary file type.

Few words about Meta, Super, Hyper and Alt modifiers on Emacs Emacs traditionally allowed (and continues to allow use of) Super, Hyper and Alt modifiers. Unfortunately, modern keyboards do not come…

Find notes via relations.

A little function to merge values of a plist

Many people are quite surprised when I tell them that my primary computer is a custom-built desktop PC, that I assembled myself. After all, desktops have been going out of fashion for over a decade and most people these days use laptops or even tablets as…

Lots of programming languages have some built-in range functionality, that’s typically used to generate a list/array of integer numbers. Here are a couple of examples from Ruby and Clojure:

In the default Emacs configuration, C-l is bound to recenter-top-bottom. This function has an interesting behaviour: when called once, it scrolls the current window so that the current line appears at the middle of the screen. When called several times in…

Lately I haven’t written much here, so I thought it’d be nice to change this with a short update on my recent OSS activity. RuboCop After a couple of slow months, where I had a lot of work and work-related travel on my hands, I’m now back in action on the…

It's been a while since I last blogged about anything personally (although I have written a few things for work). In a struggle to come up with things to talk about I finally decided it might be worth documenting my current working setup. It's probably a…

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