Before I start digging into how to implement the Emacs universal-argument (c-u), which none of the Emacs packages support and which is painful to lose after 40+ years of Emacs finger habits, includ... (more…)

This is a series of brief articles aimed at teaching Emacs to computer professionals who are unfamiliar with it. I do not dwell on the basics of the user interface, which can be learned from the built-in tutorial. Instead, each article in this serie... (more…)

A sign of good abstractions can be that they allow you to quickly breed useful new abstractions. This is accented by the feeling that your… (more…)

Prelude is an enhanced Emacs 25.1+ distribution that should make your experience with Emacs both more pleasant and more powerful. - bbatsov/prelude... (more…)

I regularly make throwaway “projects” and do a surprising amount of programming in /tmp. For Emacs Lisp, the equivalent is the *scratch* buffer. These are places where I can make a mess, and the mess usually gets cleaned up before it becomes a problem. A ... (more…)