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Announcements

Emacs 29.1 Released

Basic Configuration

Automatically Kill Running Processes on Exit

Basics

Setting the Default Font for Emacs

Blogs

Pragmatic Emacs

New Emacs blogs

Books

Mastering Emacs (the First Emacs Book in Over a Decade) is Out

Built-in Commands

Look up the keybindings for some command

Built-ins

Soft Wrapping Done Right with visual-wrap-prefix-mode

Relative Line Numbers

You have no idea how powerful isearch is!

Run Buffer-specific Commands with M-X

Redo Complex Command

CIDER

Calendar

Emacs as Your Calendar

Clojure

Compilation

Mastering Compilation Mode

Completion

Tree-sitter powered code completion

Use Tab to Indent or Complete

Configuration

use-short-answers: The Modern Way to Tame yes-or-no Prompts

Code Formatting in Emacs

Taming Font-Lock with font-lock-ignore

Customizing Font-Lock in the Age of Tree-sitter

Relative Line Numbers

Emacs and XDG sitting on a tree

Detecting Whether Emacs is Running in Terminal or GUI mode

Enable Mouse Support in Terminal Emacs

Disable Annoying Audio Notifications

Use Tab to Indent or Complete

My Personal Emacs Configuration

Configure the Scratch Buffer's Mode

Removing/Altering Key Bindings from Minor Mode Keymaps

Highlight Lines that Exceed a Certain Length Limit

Keep Backup and Auto-save Files Out of the Way

Consult

Redo Complex Command with Consult

Customize

Goodbye setq, hello setopt!

Daemon

Running Emacs with systemd

Database

Using Emacs as a Database Client

Debian

Installing Emacs's Elisp Sources on Debian/Ubuntu

Debugging

Debugging Errors in Emacs

Debugging Emacs Commands

Discord

Emacs Redux on Discord

Disqus

Switching to a New Comments Service

ELPA

NonGNU ELPA Package Repository

GNU ELPA Devel Package Repository

Editing

Removing Paired Delimiters in Emacs

Code Formatting in Emacs

Transpose All The Things

expreg: Expand Region, Reborn

So Many Ways to Work with Comments

Make Script Files Executable Automatically

Disable global-hl-line-mode for Specific Modes

Comment Commands Redux

Highlight matching delimiters with smartparens

Open line above

Continue a comment on the next line

Smarter navigation to the beginning of a line

Delete Whitespace around Point

Whitespace cleanup

CamelCase-aware Editing

Delete Selection on Insert

Kill Whole Line

Kill Line Backward

Move current line up or down

Highlight Current Line

Highlight Matching Parentheses

Terminal at Your Fingertips

Automatic (Electric) Character Pairing

Automatic (Electric) Indentation

Indent Region or Ruffer

Copy Filename to the Clipboard

Repeat Last Command

Manipulating Word Case

Smarter open-line

Emacs

Install a Package from a VCS Repository

Emacs 23

Buffer-Local Face Remapping with face-remap-add-relative

Emacs 24.4

A peek at Emacs 24.4: superword-mode

A peek at Emacs 24.4: prettify-symbols-mode

A peek at Emacs 24.4: Variadic Numeric Comparison Functions

A peek at Emacs 24.4: Focus Hooks

A peek at Emacs 24.4: delete-duplicate-lines

A peek at Emacs 24.4: hash-table-keys & hash-table-values

A peek at Emacs 24.4: New string manipulation functions

A peek at Emacs 24.4: auto-indentation by default

A peek at Emacs 24.4: sRGB colours on OS X

A peek at Emacs 24.4: Rectangular selection

A peek at Emacs 24.4: Smarter show-paren-mode

Emacs 25.1

Eldoc Goes Global

Emacs 26

Automatically Kill Running Processes on Exit

Emacs 27

isearch-lazy-count: Built-in Search Match Counting

Emacs 28

use-short-answers: The Modern Way to Tame yes-or-no Prompts

Looking Up Words in a Dictionary

Emacs 29

Goodbye setq, hello setopt!

Run Buffer-specific Commands with M-X

Changing The Emacs Configuration Directory

Emacs 29.1 Released

Emacs 30

Soft Wrapping Done Right with visual-wrap-prefix-mode

Preview Regex Replacements as Diffs

Emacs 31

Hide Minor Modes in the Modeline in Emacs 31

Emacs Lisp

Replacing dash.el with Built-in Emacs APIs

Extract Version Metadata from a Package

Check if a Font is Available with Emacs Lisp

Weird Emacs: Listy Lambdas

Checking the Major Mode in Emacs Lisp

Convert a Keyword to a Symbol

Learning Emacs Lisp

Converting Between Symbols and Strings

Instant Access to Your Shell Init File

A Proper Replacement for Flet

Advise multiple commands in the same manner

Rename File and Buffer

Evaluate Emacs Lisp in the Minibuffer

Delete File and Buffer

Remove Variable & Function Definitions

Faces

Buffer-Local Face Remapping with face-remap-add-relative

Flycheck

Replacing dash.el with Built-in Emacs APIs

Flyspell

Essential Flyspell

Spell Checking Comments

Fonts

Setting the Default Font for Emacs

Check if a Font is Available with Emacs Lisp

Forward Compatibility

The Compat Elisp Library: A Package Maintainer's Best Friend

Fun

Git

Emacs's Development has Migrated to Git

Travel Back and Forward in Git History

Help

Lookup the Documentation of Functions, Variables and Faces

Look up the keybindings for some command

Display the Keybinding for a Command with substitute-command-keys

History

The Space-cadet Keyboard

Hyvor Talk

Switching to a New Comments Service

Installation

Installing Emacs's Elisp Sources on Debian/Ubuntu

Java

Jekyll

Switching to a New Comments Service

Dealing with Jekyll Post URLs

Keybindings

The role of the Escape key in Emacs

Removing (Unbinding) vs Unsetting Keybindings

Avoid Accidentally Minimizing Emacs

Remove Keybinding in Emacs

Super Keybindings for Magit

Remap Enter to Control in GNU/Linux (2020 Edition)

Look up the keybindings for some command

Display the Keybinding for a Command with substitute-command-keys

Remap Return to Control in GNU/Linux

Removing/Altering Key Bindings from Minor Mode Keymaps

Make use of the Super key

Learning Emacs

Mastering Emacs (the First Emacs Book in Over a Decade) is Out

Libraries

The Compat Elisp Library: A Package Maintainer's Best Friend

Linux

Installing Emacs via Snap

Running Emacs with systemd

Remap Enter to Control in GNU/Linux (2020 Edition)

Remap Return to Control in GNU/Linux

MELPA

Magit

Deleting Git Branches with Magit

Super Keybindings for Magit

Essential Magit File Commands

Meta

Emacs Redux Turns 10

The Space-cadet Keyboard

The One True Possessive Form: Emacs's vs Emacs'

Getting in Touch

State of Emacs Survey

Patronage Revisited

The Emacs Year in Review

The Perfect Domain for Emacs Projects

Mastering Emacs (the First Emacs Book in Over a Decade) is Out

Emacs's Development has Migrated to Git

Become an Emacs Redux patron

New Emacs blogs

Emacs Chat Next Monday

A peek at Emacs 24.4

Minibuffer

Run Shell Commands from the Minibuffer

Minor Modes

Removing/Altering Key Bindings from Minor Mode Keymaps

Misc

News

NonGNU ELPA

Submitting a Package to NonGNU ELPA

OS X

A peek at Emacs 24.4: sRGB colours on OS X

Package

Package Maintenance

The Compat Elisp Library: A Package Maintainer's Best Friend

Package Management

Describe Package

Packages

expreg: Expand Region, Reborn

Install a Package from a VCS Repository

Submitting the Current Input in ido

Submitting the Current Input in Selectrum

Submitting a Package to NonGNU ELPA

NonGNU ELPA Package Repository

Favorite Emacs Packages

Eldoc Goes Global

Travel Back and Forward in Git History

which-function-mode

A Proper Replacement for Flet

Using Emacs as a Database Client

Manage Processes with proced

Paredit

Evaluate Emacs Lisp in the Minibuffer

Patronage

Patronage Revisited

Become an Emacs Redux patron

Prelude

Emacs Prelude 1.0

Productivity

A Crazy Productivity Boost: Remapping Return to Control (2017 Edition)

A Crazy Productivity Boost: Remap Return to Control

Programming

Mastering Compilation Mode

Spell Checking Comments

prog-mode: The Parent of all Programming Modes

Projectile

Configuring Minibuffer Completion in Projectile

Projectile goes Turbo

Search

isearch-lazy-count: Built-in Search Match Counting

Selectrum

Submitting the Current Input in Selectrum

Series

A peek at Emacs 24.4

Shell

Run Shell Commands from the Minibuffer

Shells

Custom Config for Shells

Startup

Speed up Emacs Startup by Tweaking the GC Settings

Terminal

Interacting with the Menu Bar

Themes

Customizing Color Themes

Clean Unloading of Emacs Themes

Tree-sitter

Customizing Font-Lock in the Age of Tree-sitter

Transpose All The Things

expreg: Expand Region, Reborn

Tree-sitter powered code completion

Troubleshooting

Debugging Emacs Commands

UI

Maximize the Emacs Frame on Startup

Customizing the Fringes

Color Themes: Redux

Display visited file's path in the frame title

Playing with Font Sizes

Ubuntu

Installing Emacs's Elisp Sources on Debian/Ubuntu

Utilities

Tracking World Time with Emacs

Auto-create Missing Directories

Emacs as Your Calendar

Describe Package

Reinstalling Emacs Packages

Clear Comint Buffers

Travel Back and Forward in Git History

Instant Access to Your Shell Init File

A Proper Replacement for Flet

Increment and Decrement Integer at Point

Highlight Comment Annotations

Advise multiple commands in the same manner

Boost Performance by Leveraging Byte-compilation

Eval and Replace

Deleting Windows

Instant Access to init.el

Rename File and Buffer

Start command or switch to its buffer

Execute Commands Ninja-style with key-chord-mode

Switch to Previous Buffer

Custom Config for Shells

Edit Files as Root

Evaluate Emacs Lisp in the Minibuffer

Recently Visited Files

Delete File and Buffer

Playing with Font Sizes

Go Back to Previous Window

Kill Other Buffers

Network Utilities

Open File in External Program

Utils

Clean Unloading of Emacs Themes

Lookup the Documentation of Functions, Variables and Faces

Extract Version Metadata from a Package

WSL

Dealing with Clipboard Issues on Windows 11 + WSLg

WSL-specific Emacs Configuration

WSL2

Using Emacs on Windows 11 with WSL2

Using Emacs on Windows with WSL2

Wayland

Using Emacs on Windows 11 with WSL2

Weird Emacs

Weird Emacs: Listy Lambdas

Windows

Dealing with Clipboard Issues on Windows 11 + WSLg

WSL-specific Emacs Configuration

Using Emacs on Windows 11 with WSL2

Using Emacs on Windows with WSL2

comint

Clear Comint Buffers

config

Opening Large Files

crux

Let's make keyboard-quit smarter

Instant Access to Your Shell Init Files

Instant Access to Your Shell Init File

Eval and Replace

Open line above

Smarter navigation to the beginning of a line

Instant Access to init.el

Rename File and Buffer

Switch to Previous Buffer

Edit Files as Root

Kill Whole Line

Delete File and Buffer

Kill Other Buffers

Terminal at Your Fingertips

Open File in External Program

dash.el

Replacing dash.el with Built-in Emacs APIs

dired

editing

Auto-indent your code with aggressive-indent-mode

ido

Submitting the Current Input in ido

imenu

info

Quickly Open an Info Manual

isearch

You have no idea how powerful isearch is!

macOS

A Crazy Productivity Boost: Remapping Return to Control (2017 Edition)

A peek at Emacs 24.4: sRGB colours on OS X

A Crazy Productivity Boost: Remap Return to Control

melpa

Building MELPA packages locally

minibuffer

Pimp My Minibuffer Evaluation

misc

Quickly find Emacs Lisp sources

org-mode

Editing Links in org-mode

package.el

Ensure all packages are installed by default with use-package

GNU ELPA Devel Package Repository

Building MELPA packages locally

packages

ido-vertical-mode

pgtk

Using Emacs on Windows 11 with WSL2

seq.el

Replacing dash.el with Built-in Emacs APIs

style

Emacs Lisp Style Guide

super-save

use-package

Ensure all packages are installed by default with use-package

utils

Let's make keyboard-quit smarter

Instant Access to Your Shell Init Files