Emacs Related Essays

Emacs Modernization

Text Editing

• Emergency vi (vi tutorial)
• A Text Editor Feature: Extend Selection by Semantic Unit
• A Simple Lisp Code Formatter
• Tabs vs Spaces in Source Code
• The Harm of hard-wrapping Lines
• 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++)

Keyboarding ⌨

Emacs Keybinding, Keyboard, Articles Index

Why Emacs Lisp?

• What is Your Favorite Lisp
• What to Do with Emacs Lisp
• Emacs Lisp vs Perl: Validate Local File Links
• Text Processing: Emacs Lisp vs Perl
• Why Learn Lisp When There Are Perl ＆ Python
• Why Emacs Is So Useful

Criticism

• Fundamental Problems of Lisp
• Concepts ＆ Confusions of {Prefix, Infix, Postfix, Fully Nested} Notations
• Lisp's List Problem
• Why Lisp Do Not Have A Generic Copy-List Function
• Programing Language: A Ruby Illustration of Lisp Problems
• Why You should Not Use the Jargons lisp-1 lisp-2
• Emacs Lisp Problems: Trim String, Regex Match Data, Lacking Namespace
• the Bane of Emacs 24 Copy Directory Change

The Emacs Cult

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

• “Free” Software Morality, Richard Stallman, Paperwork Bureaucracy
• The Unix Pestilence: GNU
• Richard Stallman's Abuse of the Word “Freedom”
• Software Freedom is Free Speech or Free Beer?
• Lispers and Wikipedia

Emacs ＆ Emacs Lisp Logo

• GNU Emacs Logo
• LISP Logo
• The Lambda Logo Tour
• Lisp Needs a Logo
• Lisp Logo Latte Art

Misc

• TextMate Gone Open Source
• Ruby Creator Matz on How Emacs Changed My Life
• Emacs, Shell, Abbrev, and ELISP Power to Bear!

• A Typing Game in Emacs
• Difference between Emacs's “(setenv PATH …)” and “(setq exec-path …)”
• Using Emacs for Twitter
• Emacs Edit Exercise: puthash Unicode
• Emacs: Full-Screen vs Multiple Window
• Emacs: Power of Icicles

• M-x Donuts
• Emacs Rocks on Paredit

Xah Lee

Emacs Modes by Xah Lee

• Microsoft cites ErgoEmacs!
• Xah Lee's Emacs Init File: https://github.com/xahlee/xah_emacs_init
• My Experience of Emacs vs XEmacs
• My First Encounter and Impression of Lisp
• Freenode IRC Emacs Channel Ban on Xah Lee
• Edward O'Connor (aka hober) vs Xah Lee