For fun with Common Lisp and to help solve a certain puzzle - but just
a little bit - I wrote a set of tools to analyse words of just five
letters.

Emacs tips and tricks Shared on the Emacs Tips, Tricks, &c. thread1
Use selected mode to set up a keymap that only applies when you have a selection. I use this every day. It’s great for indentation of an area, and I also use it for removing duplicate lines…

A compelling feature of Org is its ability to interpret a headline as a task. Org provides a rich set of attributes to a headline, many of which affect how it is rendered in Org Agenda. While...

In this video, we're finally putting everything together for the function-header project.
for the most part, it's just putting a function wrapper (defun) around code we've already written but there area a few new things.
In order to parse the parameter string…

Karl Voit made the excellent comment on my post, “Defining Org Agenda Tasks”, that using a repeated timestamp can be more trouble than is worth. Instead, his guidance is to make multiple...

Emacs Ergonomics: Dont Punish Your Finger Tips 1. Summary A collection of keybinding changes I have arrived at over time to protect m...

On this 7th (and possibly final) episode in the Configuring Emacs series, I cover a ton of new programs and final tweaks of the config file, including: electric pair mode, git timemachine, magit, perspective, rainbow delimiters, tldr, and more.

THE CONFIG:…