Toward Accessible Scientific Documents Via Arxiv.Org 1. Background I access research papers from arxiv.org multiple times a week. Ha...

AsTeR: Spoken Math On The Emacspeak Audio Desktop 1. Dedication To My Guiding Eyes In fond memory of Aster who first showed the...

There are some mythical figures in the folklore of emacs and their names are BSG’s office secretaries. Bernard Greenberg (a.k.a. BSG), the inventor of Multics Emacs, was an employee of Honeywell and probably those mythical figures were employees of Honeywell…

AsTeR: Spoken Math On The Emacspeak Audio Desktop 1. Dedication To My Guiding Eyes In fond memory of Aster who first showed the...

Welcome to another episode of “A Poseur Wandering the emacs lisp World”, I am your host, chainsawriot. Today I will give another example of programming using emacs lisp to extend emacs.

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Classic books is difficult to read because they have many new words.



Find the word's dictionary definition is tedios and breaks the flow.



I tried reading those books in iPad and Kindle. The expe

Journeying through the Emacs rabbit hole

I just encountered the strangest behaviour in Emacs. I was editing a shell script, hit C-x b to switch to another buffer, and Emacs suddenly froze with the following message:
Pinging <hostname>…

On day 2, I talked about command discoverability and the pointlessness of memorizing key combinations. I also talked a bit about global-set-key on day 2 and keymaps on day7. This is an additional point to the topic.

He’s the one, who likes all our pretty songs. And he likes to sing along. And he likes to shoot his gun. But he knows not what it means, knows not what it means

I have used the C-l shortcut in ZSH to clear the screen for as long as I can remember. When I started using Eshell, one of the first problems I encountered was the inability to clear the buffer. I…

Bob’s your uncle, I’ve finally done it! On Nov 31, I thought, um… writing 25 blog posts about emacs, how hard can it be?