Join me on my journey to a more fluid vanilla-ish emacs workflow
and may the emacs pinky stay ever dormant in my aging fingers!

Intro Due to the nature of my work, I operate in a variety of environments, databases, and languages. Emacs is very good for this. As an example of this, I just found myself needing to verify if an update had worked on the PostGres database of a remote server.…

I was recently reminded of the ability of Emacs Calc to perform computations on values with units. Like so many Emacs features, it was on the list of the things I wanted to explore. Today is the day…

I use Emacs 📖 for my text editing. I came to Emacs having used several other text editors; It was a very deliberate decision to adopt Emacs. See Revisiting the Principles of My Text Editor. Because of my later journey into Emacs relative to all of the other…

Today I learned that Emacs 28 added context-menu-mode so that we can easily add context menus. This is a minor mode which you can toggle with
M-x context-menu-mode RET but I added hooks to enable it for text mode and a couple others
(add-hook 'text-mode…

A take on how to create and work with log messages

What features would make autocomplete helpful rather than annoying