Emacs Related Essays

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

Emacs Modernization

Emacs Keybinding, Keyboard, Articles Index

Text Editing

• vi tutorial
• Vim: How to Remap the Escape Key?
• vi, vim: 3 Decades Pile of History
• 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
• What to Do with Emacs Lisp

Emacs Lisp

• Emacs Lisp Toothpick Syndrome
• 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 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

• Rants on Emacs Visual Lines by Don Hopkins and Mark Crispin
• the Bane of Emacs 24 Copy Directory Change
• Xah Emacs Tutorial Criticisms: Emacs Lisp, Coding Style, Language Idioms, Controversy
• Emacs: Why I Don't Use paredit

Misc Photos ＆ Fun

• 
  Emacs Logo Halloween Pumpkin Jack-O'-Lantern
• GNU Emacs Logo
• 
  LISP Logo
• Lisp Logo Latte Art
• 
  M-x Donuts
• ErgoEmacs Logo ＆ Mascot
• Qi Lisp Language Logo
• Lisp Needs a Logo
• A Lambda Logo Tour (and why LISP languages using λ as logo should not be looked upon kindly)

Emacs Screenshots

• 
  Show Your Emacs Screen
• Emacs Screen Tour: Dan Lentz's Emacs Screen
• Emacs Screen Tour: Emacs Oldbie Nick Alcock

Emacs People

• 
  Richard Stallman meets Julian Assange, 2013
• 
  Richard Stallman in MIT AI Lab: High-tech Prankster
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  Ruby Creator Matz on How Emacs Changed My Life
• John Wiegley on Emacs Lisp and Haskell
• Emacs Rocks on Paredit
• Sacha Chua's Emacs Chat
• Sacha Chua's Emacs Chat with Phil Hagelberg Technomancy
• Daniel Weinreb Died ((1959 〜 2012) Lisp Programer)

Typing, Keyboard, RSI, Efficiency, Workflow

• RSI is Coming for You
• 
  Programer Workflow Efficiency
• Emacs Keybinding vs cua-mode Keys
• Typing Speed and Hand Motion Speed Study
• 
  Game: Emacs of the Dead
• Emacs: Full-Screen vs Multiple Window
• on vi Keybinding vs Emacs Keybinding
• Dogma of Swapping Control/Capslock

more at Emacs Keybinding, Keyboard, RSI, Articles Index

Xah Lee

• Xah Emacs Modes
• 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
• Xah Emacs Tutorial Criticisms: Emacs Lisp, Coding Style, Language Idioms, Controversy
• Microsoft cites ErgoEmacs!
• 
  xah fly keys Mode

Emacs Images Thumbnails Index

Emacs Images Thumbnails Index

Misc, Unsorted

• Richard Stallman Emacs as Word Processor
• TextMate Gone Open Source
• Emacs: Interactive Abbrev in Shell
• Emacs Lisp vs JavaScript?
• Emacs Bug file-remote-p 2014-05-15

• Difference between Emacs's “(setenv PATH …)” and “(setq exec-path …)”
• Emacs Edit Exercise: puthash Unicode
• Emacs: Power of Icicles
• Emacs: Zippy the Pinhead

• Ask Emacs Tuesday
• Emacs: Power of Icicles
• Microsoft Cites ErgoEmacs!
• TextMate Gone Open Source

• 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?
• Emacs Bug: global-linum-mode Freeze Emacs on Big Image Files
• List of Emacs Starter Kits
• 𝔗𝔥𝔬𝔲 𝔖𝔥𝔞𝔩𝔱 𝔘𝔰𝔢 𝔈𝔪𝔞𝔠𝔰 𝔏𝔦𝔰𝔭
• What to Do with Emacs Lisp?
• Which Chapters of Elisp Manual to Read?
• Emacs Lisp: Which Part of Symbol Don't You Get?
• Syntax Coloring in Editors
• Emacs 24.4 up-list Change
• Emacs Gnus Bug: Broken Atom Webfeed Relative Link