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 a map for Emacs Users. I have always loved maps, and I am a sucker for these map [...]
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Where In The World Are Emacs Users?
October 26th, 2007 by Rob Christie · No Comments
GNU Emacs 22 Released
June 3rd, 2007 by Rob Christie · 7 Comments
Emacs 22 was officially released yesterday.
Emacs version 22 includes GTK+ toolkit support, enhanced mouse support, a new keyboard macro system, improved Unicode support, and drag-and-drop operation on X, plus many new modes and packages including a graphical user interface to GDB, Python mode, the mathematical tool Calc, the remote file editing system Tramp, and [...]
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A Little Bit of History
May 4th, 2007 by Rob Christie · No Comments
I just ran across this article. The Church of Emacs is a good read… no it’s not from alt.religion.emacs. The article is more of a history of emacs with some great references as well.
IBM Emacs Tutorial, Part I
April 2nd, 2007 by Ryan McGeary · 1 Comment
Michael Stutz recently wrote Part I of a new new series at IBM called Emacs editing environment. The first is Learn the basics of Emacs.
This first tutorial is definitely geared toward the emacs newcomer. There is a lot of overlap with the built-in emacs tutorial (C-h t), but different mediums are good for [...]
Recent Features in Carbon Emacs
March 5th, 2007 by Rob Christie · No Comments
It’s always nice to delete code or configuration files while maintaining or increasing functionality. The 2007-01-06 Carbon Emacs build now imports paths from the user’s shell (bash, tcsh, zsh). Note: The latest available build is from 2007-01-21, and includes a few more goodies. This added functionality allowed me to delete a few setq exec-path and [...]
G-client: Google Services in Emacs
March 3rd, 2007 by Ryan McGeary · No Comments
If you are the type who likes to do everything within emacs, check out g-client. For a full writeup, read An Emacs Client For Google Services to learn how to integrate Google’s Blogger, Reader, and Calender with emacs.
Hello World
January 12th, 2007 by Rob Christie · No Comments
We’d like to introduce a small blog focused on “the one true editor.” I use emacs daily. My intent for this blog is initially the following:
Provide links to recent emacs happenings. As an emacs user I feel like I browse different sites and blogs, and find useful information in various nooks and crannies of the [...]