Discover a simple yet powerful elisp function that automatically recalculates clock tables in Org mode files, saving you time and hassle when tracking your time and tasks. Learn how to enable this function for specific files and improve your Org mode workflow…

Emacs's automatic window management is a bit arcane, but Mickey Petersen's excellent article "Demystifying Emacs’s Window Manager" is full of inspiring snippets. A couple of months ago, I made some tweaks. ...

Today someone asked in OCaml’s Discord “How do you call a variable that refers to a filename without its extension?”. I always thought there was no specific term for this and I always named such variables filename-sans-extension (or similar), but it turns…

https://emacsconf.org/2022/talks/orgvm

You can view this and other resources using free/libre software at https://emacsconf.org/2022/talks/orgvm . During the conference, you can ask questions via the Etherpad or through IRC (https://chat.emacsconf.org/?join=emacsconf…

emacs has a bad reputation for being “difficult to use”. A piece of software can’t be difficult to use for the sake of being difficult to use. Of course, many people remember emacs for forcing them to memorize a lot of key combinations (C-x C-f, C-x C-s,…

On day 1, I talked about use-package. For using use-package, one needs to relaunch emacs to “refresh” the configuration, install emacs packages and stuffs. But how do I relaunch emacs?

emacs has a bad reputation for being “slow”. It is not that difficult to find derogatory expansions of the 5 characters e, m, a, c, and s. My favorite is “Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping”. It talks about how memory hungry emacs was. In the old days…

Hongchao Liu thinks that emacs is the “2D command-line interface”. Sure enough, I could do many things with the 2D command-line interface. However, there are still many things I prefer to use the 1D command-line interface, i.e. the Linux shell. Hate to admit…

After vi(m) vs emacs, the GUI vs terminal emacs debate is probably the second favorite past time of emacs Redditors.

Yesterday, I talked about displaying programming ligatures. A programming ligature, although in one single glyph as being displayed, is actually a sequence of characters. For example, |> are two characters | (the pipe) and > (greater than), although it looks…

Yesterday, I talked about mode and keymap/modemap. And it actually opens up a pandora box: How do I know all these information? In order to customize emacs, you need to find all the relevant information.

I admit it now: at least 50% of the things I write are formulaic.

As I said yesterday, this is a break for me. I just want to quickly show you what theme I am using and also the technique to quickly to switch to another theme.

A serious boost regression