M-x all-things-emacs

I’ve never really liked the built-in customization UI in Emacs (M-x customize). I’m sure plenty of people use it and enjoy it, but, to me, it feels like an abominable tree of never ending and diff...

In preparation for a new upcoming PeepCode screencast, Geoffrey Grosenbach put together a quick 5 minute Emacs introduction. It’s a good summary of some Emacs niceties. Geoffrey also wrote up some...

Phil Hagelberg recently started a new project called Emacs Starter Kit. Here’s how Phil describes it:
It’s … a set of dotfiles extracted from my years of obsessive Emacs tweaking. It acts as a ba...

Stuart Halloway’s recent screencast titled What You Can Learn From ido.el convinced me that I need to give ido-mode another look, especially since I didn’t realize it had support for flex (aka fuz...

I ran across this thread on easier window switching within emacs using the windmove-xxx commands on gnu.emacs.help a few days ago. It’s always nice to find out about commands I didn’t know about… ...

I just played with Stevey’s new js2-mode. So many previous javascript modes for emacs just didn’t cut it, but now finally, I’m proud to see a javascript mode that works. Steve did a great job with...

There are a number of snippet packages that are available for emacs: snippet.el, smart-snippet, and the older skeleton and tempo packages that are a part of emacs. The snippet package was in the w...

Recently, I have been doing more remote pair programming at my day job, and I was copying some code snippets into pastie. Pastie is a site that allows you to share code snippets with nice syntax ...

Every few months you see a thread on the emacs news groups polling to see the age or occupation of the users. Recently someone sent out a link on gnu.emacs.help to a site called BuddyMapping with ...

I give up. During the past 6 years of my emacs career, my .emacs initialization file grew to embarrassing levels. As of this morning, it is well over 1000 lines and is a looming burden of disorgan...