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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…

In today's stream, we'll try to find interesting Emacs packages to try out! Feel free to bring your suggestions!

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This afternoon, I was exploring some Tree Sitter 📖 functions in Emacs 📖. I wanted to take a Ruby 📖’s method’s signature and create Yardoc stubs from the method parameters. Requirements Let’s say I have the following Ruby method definition: def call(foo, bar:…

File Management There should now be a trend in this series for custom functions (see the last posts for baseline & modules functions). I like things to work my way.
This is of course a reasonably easy thing to do using Emacs. With it being extensible and…