Update (2024-10-02): Update for Emacs 29 Update (2024-09-08): Read this article in Japanese at Qiita or at Emacs-JP. Update (2021-10-16): While this list was intended as a demonstration of the kinds of things you can do with Embark, there has been some interest by readers in reproducing these demos exactly on their...

Update (2021-05-18): The inimitable Sacha Chua informs me that the functionality proposed in this post is already included in Emacs 28. If you’re using Emacs 27.2 or older, keep reading! Update (2021-05-16): Daniel Mendler, the author of the Consult library, points out that this functionality is also built into...

One of the problems with Emacs, especially out of the box, is that its constituents don’t communicate with each other as comprehensively as they ought to. This is expected given the bazaar nature of its development: it’s an amalgamation of elisp libraries written by different contributors over decades, few of whom...

Wrote a thing to handle the annoying window flood in Emacs: Popper-mode was brewing for years as part of my config, I decided to bind it into reasonable shape and submit to MELPA. Code, MELPA, Extended demo, Reddit thread

Just a short note for today, as the super-fast-latex post is still cooking: Emacs provides a few mechanisms to manage buffer/window state as a group. There’s current-window-configuration (and its register variants) and desktop-save, and you can act on groups of buffers by every predicate imaginable in ibuffer. But...

Continuing from last time, here are a dozen more tricks Emacs has up its sleeve that it’s shy about telling you. We continue to chip away at Emacs' discoverability problem, one demo at a time. Same rules as before: No packages, stock Emacs only No steep learning curves. Learn each feature in under five minutes or...

Emacs has a reputation for being borderline unusable out of the box, of being bloated but somehow surprisingly bare. This is largely a discoverability problem1. The solution the Internet has settled on seems to be “Emacs distributions” like Doom, Spacemacs or Prelude that glue together dozens (sometimes hundreds) of...

Elfeed, the feed reader for Emacs, is built on several clever ideas. The basic mode of interaction in Elfeed is through search, specifying what kinds of feeds you want to peruse at the moment. This removes the distinction between an inbox and a search result, which works surprisingly well with the expressive search...

⨕ Grad student in dynamics and control ⨕ Occasional overthinker

Or “A very short investigation of the mental dynamics of feeling suddenly stupid”. Every week I have a couple of experiences that play out as follows: Involved and intricate discussion on non-trivial subject, usually but not always mathematical and/or abstract in nature, involving an attempt to make a deduction...

I’ve dabbled in mindfulness meditation before, but the past three months have been the first uninterrupted period of sustained practice. While it would be an exaggeration to say I’ve even scratched the surface of the practice, I have learnt a couple of interesting things about the nature of experience. The first is...