Konrad Hinsen has an interesting post positing that Emacs is one of the few pieces of malleable software extant in the modern software environment. To understand what that means, you should first read the definition of malleable that Hinsen links to. When... (more…)

Often, you need to go to a previous position in a buffer. (more…)

I talk about the five lessons I learnt in my life as a computer user and through my experiences with free software and GNU Emacs. /// The link to this presen... (more…)

Remember my article on why vi uses hjkl keys? It got very popular so I thought I'd also do an article about Emacs. When Stallman and Steele created Emacs, they both worked at MIT's AI lab. The systems they worked on had these funny keyboards with a bunch ... (more…)

This tutorial is focused on the strange parts of Emacs Lisp. Hope it helps some of you better grasp the language and write some better code I can later grab ... (more…)