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…

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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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My reply to what the difference is between the ‘ef-themes’ and ‘modus-themes’ for Emacs.

Today I’ve noticed that I’ve written 36 articles to date here, which beats my previous annual record of 34 articles from 2011. I definitely didn’t see this coming, especially given how tough the year has been for me on multiple levels.

In Emacs version 28 Emacs developers introduced so-called read symbol shorthands. If you’re interested in the rationale, feel free to search the Emacs developer mailing list for the discussion. However, it does seem that not everyone likes the idea of shorthands…

I was recently browsing through an old archive of holiday photos (from dired of course). I wanted to know where the photo was taken, which got me inte...