Topic - Emacs
See also:
- org
- elisp
- emacsconf
- subed
- Podcasts and videos:
- Yay Emacs: short Emacs videos
- Emacs Chats
- Emacs Hangouts
- Emacs and…
- writing
- configuring
- development
- web
- BBDB
- mail (I should update this; I use notmuch in Emacs now)
- My Emacs configuration
I'm probably a posterchild for using Emacs to create very idiosyncratic tools.
- I remember modifying flashcard.el so that it would show me funny cat pictures from I Can Haz Cheeseburger on success, which turned out to be a great way to motivate me to go through lots of flashcards.
- I use Emacs to edit audio, and include images and video clips to make videos.
- I use Emacs to linkify and animate SVGs.
- I use Emacs to organize and run a conference (about Emacs, of course).
- I've used Emacs to make Minecraft command books.
- I use Emacs to manage my sketches. (Oooh, I should update my workflow description.)
- I remember writing a bit of Emacs Lisp to quickly count up the different types of squares I was planning to sew together into a quilt so that I could plan a layout that fit with the numbers I had of each type.
- … and way more; might have to check my Emacs category posts
Blog posts
Featured:
- Tweaking Emacs on Android via Termux: xclip, xdg-open, syncthing conflicts
- Interview with Thierry Volpiatto, maintainer of Emacs Helm
- Emacs Conf video tech notes: jit.si, twitch.tv, livestreamer, ffmpeg (Sept 2015)
- How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners (May 2013)
- How to learn Emacs keyboard shortcuts (a visual tutorial for newbies)
- Emacs Conference 2013 Sketchnotes (also, PDF!) (Apr 2013)
- Emacs: beginner, intermediate, advanced (June 2014)
- Emacs beginner resources (Apr 2014)
- Learning
- Teaching
- Microhabits and incremental improvement
- Yay Emacs 8: which-key-replacement-alist (2025)
- Yay Emacs 6: Inserting links with consult-omni (2024)
- Scan ~/bin and turn the scripts into Emacs commands (Dec 2015)
- Emacs kaizen: ace-isearch combines ace-jump-mode and helm-swoop (Jan 2015)
- Developing Emacs micro-habits: Abbreviations and templates (Jan 2015)
- Emacs microhabit: Switching windows with windmove, ace-window, and ace-jump (Jan 2015)
- Emacs kaizen: helm-swoop and editing (Jan 2015)
- Emacs kaizen: ace-jump-zap lets you use C-u to zap to any character (Dec 2014) Quick Emacs tip for using ace-jump-zap-to-char-dwim or ace-jump-zap-up-to-char-dwim for deleting characters up to a specified character anywhere on your screen
- Emacs: M-y as helm-show-kill-ring (Dec 2014)
- Emacs: Evaluating Javascript and CSS in Chrome using Skewer Mode (Nov 2014)
Community
- Changing planet.emacslife.com (2025)
- emacs.tv (2024)
- Emacs interview: Daniel Semyonov (2024)
- Thinking about Emacs community maintenance (2021)
- Why I Love Emacs - from Bob Oliver (2021)
Images
- Hyperlinking SVGs (2025)
- Using image-dired to browse the latest screenshots from multiple directories (2025)
- Emacs: Extract part of an image to another file (2024)
- Interactively recolor a sketch (2024)
- Patching elfeed and shr to handle SVG images with viewBox attributes (2024)
- Animating SVG topic maps with Inkscape, Emacs, FFmpeg, and Reveal.js (2024)
Writing
Other
- Highlight the current line while still being able to easily customize/describe underlying faces (2024)
- Quickly adding face properties to regions (2024)
- Cubing and Emacs: Checking out the competition (2024)
- Emacs: url-retrieve-synchronously and set-buffer-multibyte (2024)
- Highlight the active modeline using colours from modus-themes (2024)
- Adding an XSL stylesheet for my RSS and Atom feeds (2024)
- Emacs tweaks: Choosing what to hack on (2024)
- How I keep track of new Emacs packages (2023)
- Getting Mermaid JS and ob-mermaid running on my system - needed to symlink Chromium for Puppeteer (2023)
- Analyzing my Emacs time over the last 11 years or so (2023)
- Using the calendar-date-echo-text variable to help plot a heatmap on a year-long calendar in Emacs (2023)
- Using Spookfox to scroll Firefox up and down from Emacs (2023)
- Started learning how to interactively debug Javascript in Emacs with Indium (2021)
- Using the wgrep package in Emacs to rewrite grep results from lots of files (2021)
- Grabbing the Youtube auto-generated captions is pretty useful when making Emacs News (2021)
- Guest post: Bookmarking PDFs in Emacs with pdf-tools and registers (2021)
- Marginalia and hiding the value of password-ish variables (2021)
- Emacs: Pasting with the mouse without moving the point - mouse-yank-at-point
- Keep Emacs alive through X crashes by running it in the background with –daemon
- Building a today-I-learned habit, and displaying the documentation for random Emacs commands
- Wow, literate devops with Emacs and Org does actually work on Windows (Oct 2015)
- John Wiegley on organizing your Emacs configuration with use-package (April 2015)
- Getting Helm and org-refile to clock in or create tasks (Mar 2015)
- Let's have a virtual Emacs conference in August - help me make it happen! (Feb 2015)
- Continuous integration and code coverage for Emacs packages with Travis and Coveralls (Feb 2015)
- Using Emacs to prepare files for external applications like Autodesk Sketchbook Pro (Feb 2015)
- Thinking about how to make better use of Yasnippet in my Emacs workflow (Jan 2015)
- Improving my evil plans for Emacs (Jan 2015)
- Emacs: Limiting Magit status to a directory (Nov 2014)
- Cobbling together a semi-auto-responder using Emacs, Gnus, and org-contacts (May 2014)
- Making my Emacs-related blog posts available for offline reading (May 2014)
- 2048 in Emacs, and colours too (May 2014)
- Getting R and ggplot2 to work in Emacs Org Mode Babel blocks; also, tracking the number of TODOs (May 2014)
- Emacs ABCs: A is for Apropos (Apr 2014)
- More Emacs drawings: Dired, moving around (Apr 2014)
- Emacs Basics: Customizing Emacs (Apr 2014)
- Emacs tweaks: Export Org checkboxes using UTF-8 symbols (March 2014)
- Emacs, Evernote (through enscript.exe), and Org links (March 2014)
- Animating things in Emacs (June 2013)
- Emacs chat intro (Apr 2013)
- Emacs: Use function keys for custom keyboard shortcuts
- Got Emacs questions? Let's try Emacs tutoring / pair programming!
- Making GNU Emacs play well on Microsoft Windows 7
- Emacs braindump from John Wiegley =)
- Things that I've used Emacs for
- Where I am in terms of Emacs
- Oh no! Version dependencies…
- Planner, basic configuration
- Why I use Emacs to manage my tasks
- One day with Planner
- Gnus multi-pane tricks, or I heart Planet Emacsen
- What's coming up in Emacs 24
- Thinking about Planner/EmacsWiki versus WordPress
- Behind the scenes: Livin' la Vida Emacs
- How I got hooked
- xkcd: Real programmers use Emacs
- Working on the book
- Might need to spend more time hanging out with Emacs geeks =)
- Yet another snippet mode for Emacs
- Emacs is not just for computer geeks; also, these are the things that keep me going
- Emacs, Remember, and GTD
- Emacs: Telling external processes about terminal capabilities, and watching over other people's shoulders (Jan 2012)