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

I’ve published two new packages for Emacs: - region-bindings.el and common-lisp-modes.el. Both are quite small and were a part of my configuration for a long time, but after small refactoring of my init.el I’ve decided to extract them.
The first one, region…

Combobulate is a package that adds advanced structured editing and movement to many programming modes in Emacs. Here's how it works, and how it can enrich your editing experience in Emacs.

In Project Dispatch Menu with Org Mode Metadata, Denote, and Transient I wrote about using my Denote 📖 notes, written in Org-Mode 📖, to house metadata related to my project.
The tools been working quite well. I now have a means of grouping like paths, either…

Its helped me to standardize my approach to marking up techie language. Keeping it simple the content is either programming stuff or everything else tech related. Sufficiently vauge you see: I writ…