Yesterday the pure GTK (a.k.a. pgtk) feature branch was finally merged in Emacs’s master. In a recent article I mentioned I was super excited about it, because this meant proper Wayland support for Emacs and by association - native support for running Emacs’s…

If you’re running Emacs on Windows + WSL you might have some configuration that’s specific to that particular setup.1 I’ve discovered that the simplest way to figure out if Emacs is running in WSL is to check if the host OS is Linux and the WSLENV variable…

Recently I was reading On Lisp by Paul Graham and got interested in using macros in Emacs Lisp. I decided to play with it.

Today I’ve noticed that updates to my site resulted in GitHub Pages deployment errors, even though everything was working fine locally with jekyll --serve and I hadn’t changed my site’s config.yml in a while.

On Dec 18th, 2021, Perl turned 34!1 Here’s how it all started: Depending on what you consider the birthday, that is. The first Perl commit was on Dec 18, 1987, but Perl 1.0 was released on Feb 1, 1988. ↩

When you are tinkering with Emacs, would it be great to refer to others'
configs automatically?

Earlier this week, Dwight joined the Forem team. Friday we paired on scoping a problem.
While Dwight drove, I helped navigate. As he was typing in his terminal, I noticed an interesting feature. With a blank input prompt a drop-down appearred and he’d select…

Deleting files like the .aux and .log files LaTeX creates.

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Emacs has multiple built-in libraries for folding code, as is the case for most things Emacs. The default interface it exposes for folding functions is unwieldy and cumbersome, as is the case for most things Emacs.
There is some overlap between Hideshow-mode…

My presentation at EmacsConf 2021 on Emacs, software freedom, and the spirit of sharing.

Overview Use Starmath—NOT LaTeX, NOT MathML—when exporting Org mode files to LibreOffice or Microsoft Word. (If you are impatient, you can skip the introductory note, and jump right to  How do…

Unfortunately, no one can be told what CIDER is, you have to see it for yourself. – Clorpheus, The REPLix Today is the day. 22.12.21. 12/22/21. No matter how you cut it, it’s one auspicious date and if it’s good enough for a new Matrix movie, it’s certainly…

If you are using the same configuration on multiple systems there’s a chance that your preferred font is not available on some of them. That’s why it’s a good idea to check whether some font is around prior to trying to use it. Fortunately, that’s trivial…