Emacs Related Essays

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

Misc Photos and 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 and 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 Bugs/Misc Panel Index

Useful Tips

• Emacs: Clojure CIDER Tutorial
• List of Emacs Starter Kits
• Emacs: Interactive Abbrev
• Emacs Edit Exercise: puthash Unicode
• Emacs Exercise: Generate Columns A to Z
• Emacs: 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