Emacs Related Essays

Index to misc articles related to emacs. Roughly grouped together by subject.

Misc Photos ＆ Fun

Emacs Fun Panel Index

Emacs Modernization

Emacs Modernization

Emacs Keybinding, Keyboard, Articles Index

Emacs Keybinding, Keyboard, Articles Index

vi vim

• Emergency vi
• Vim: How to Remap Escape Key?
• Ubuntu Linux: vim Location and Versions
• Linux: Ctrl+s Freeze vim ⌨

• on vi Keybinding vs Emacs Keybinding
• History of Emacs ＆ vi Keys (Keyboard Influence on Keybinding Design)
• Arrow Keys Layout Efficiency: vi's {H J K L} vs Inverted T {I J K L}
• vi, vim, 3 Decades Pile of History

Text Editing

• A Text Editor Feature: Extend Selection by Semantic Unit
• A Simple Lisp Code Formatter
• Emacs: Single Key to Delete Whole Line
• The Operative Efficiency of Emacs's Deleting Text to kill-ring
• Text Editor's Cursor Movement Behavior (emacs, vi, Notepad++)
• Why Emacs Is So Useful

Emacs Lisp

• Can Emacs Lisp Fix Its Namespace Problem by Copying JavaScript Practice?
• Emacs Lisp vs Perl: Validate Local File Links
• Text Processing: Emacs Lisp vs Perl
• Controversy of Common Lisp Package in Emacs Lisp
• Lisp's List Problem
• Why You should Not Use the Jargons lisp-1 lisp-2
• Emacs Lisp Problems: Trim String, Regex Match Data, Lacking Namespace

The Emacs Cult

• Free Software Foundation, How Much Donation They Get?
• Richard Stallman: What's magit? Emacs Dev Condition 2015
• GNU Emacs Development Inefficiency
• GNU Emacs and XEmacs Schism
• My Experience of Emacs vs XEmacs
• Problems of Emacswiki

• Emacs vs Windows Notepad
• Emacs Undo and Emacs Cult Problem
• Emacs Idolization: Have You Read the Emacs Manual From Cover to Cover?

• Rants on Emacs Visual Lines by Don Hopkins and Mark Crispin
• Emacs: Why I Don't Use paredit

more stuff

• Emacs: Zippy the Pinhead

Xah Lee

• Xah Emacs Packages
• Xah Lee's Emacs Init File: https://github.com/xahlee/xah_emacs_init
• Freenode IRC Emacs Channel Ban on Xah Lee
• Edward O'Connor (aka hober) vs Xah Lee
• Xah Emacs Tutorial Criticisms: Emacs Lisp, Coding Style, Language Idioms, Controversy
• Microsoft cites ErgoEmacs!

Emacs Images Thumbnails Index

Emacs Images Thumbnails Index

Emacs Bugs

• Emacs Lisp: with-syntax-table Leaking Bug

Useful Tips

• Emacs: Clojure CIDER Tutorial
• List of Emacs Starter Kits
• Emacs: Interactive Abbrev in Shell
• Emacs Edit Exercise: puthash Unicode
• Emacs Exercise: Generate Columns A to Z
• Emacs: How to Color Nested Brackets
• Emacs Lisp vs JavaScript?
• 𝔗𝔥𝔬𝔲 𝔖𝔥𝔞𝔩𝔱 𝔘𝔰𝔢 𝔈𝔪𝔞𝔠𝔰 𝔏𝔦𝔰𝔭 Convert Latin Alphabet to Gothic
• How to Learn Emacs Lisp?
• Difference between Emacs's “(setenv PATH …)” and “(setq exec-path …)”
• Emacs: Power of Icicles
• Emacs Commandments: the SEVEN Commands You Must Know

Misc

• Richard Stallman Emacs as Word Processor
• TextMate Gone Open Source
• Ask Emacs Tuesday
• Emacs Abbrev for Most Used English Words?
• Eric S Raymond and keyboardio
• an eulogy to sigils ξ φ
• emacs major mode keys not compatible as key sequence

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