The Taiwan Beats Showcase is probably my favorite music event
at SXSW, and I make a point to catch it every year.
This year I put together a playlist of songs by all of the performing
artists for my friends at the Austin chapter of Taiwanese American
Professionals.…

It’s no secret I’m a big of fan of both Emacs and AsciiDoc. I’ve been using AsciiDoc heavily for years and most of the documentation of my bigger OSS projects is written in AsciiDoc. That being said, my experience with the only AsciiDoc major mode for Emacs…

Most of the time people ask how to add new keybindings to Emacs and that makes perfect sense. Occasionally, however, the topic of removing keybindings also emerges - e.g. recently Paredit added a keybinding that messed up some REPL mode that were enabling…

Most of the time the packages we need to install are already available in some of the popular package repositories (e.g. MELPA or GNU ELPA). Occasionally, however, some Elisp code has not yet been packaged (or we want to use an unreleased version of a package)…

It’s no secret that one of the biggest weaknesses of Emacs is that features like font-locking (syntax highlighting) and indentation are (usually) implemented in terms of regular expressions. Even though this primitive approach mostly gets the job done, it’s…

As of 2023-03-10 I build Take on Rules via a Static Site Generator (SSG 📖). Hugo 📖 to be precise. I write locally, run a build process which generates static Hypertext Markup Language (HTML 📖) pages. I push those pages to a host which is then serves those…

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!

Information about the latest version of my colourful-yet-legible themes for GNU Emacs.

Over the last year I’ve talked with a few folks looking at improving their note-taking game. As part of those conversations, I try to find out their use-case.
Do they want to get better at writing? Are they looking to synchronize notes across their machine?…

One of the most annoying problems that newcomers experience with Emacs is that they often press C-z out of habit when they want to undo something.1 C-z (and C-x C-z), however, is bound to the command suspend-frame that works a bit differently than undo: Do…

Recently I wrote a short article on removing keybindings. Originally I failed to cover there one important nuance there that I’ll tackle today - namely the difference between really removing (unbinding) a keybinding versus just unsetting it (setting it to…

When I first adopted the Consult package, I scanned the documentation and setup a basic configuration. I then went about using the basics and hacking functionality. Tonight I spent some time reviewing Consult’s documentation.
Below is the original advice…

Today, we're taking a look at Emacs's whitespace mode and discussing how we can simplify its configuration to make it more applicable for most use cases.

Go to show notes:
https://github.com/VernonGrant/discovering-emacs/blob/main/show-notes/4-using-whitespace…

I guess every package maintainer has been in the following situation - an upcoming version of Emacs introduces some new cool API that you’d like to use immediately. Or simply you have to maintain compatibility with many old Emacs versions, but you’d still…

Even after almost 20 years of using Emacs I keep learning new things about it. I’ve always known that if you’re using Emacs on Linux the best way to set the default font is via the file .Xresources. Here’s some random example: Emacs.font: Iosevka Term Cu…