A Linux file manager for Emacs fans: A Linux file manager for Emacs fans Seth Kenlon Fri, 12/09/2022 – 03:00 In 2009, I was working hard at a startup in Pittsburgh, and in the late evenings of coding, I developed a GNU Emacs habit. The thing about Emacs is that it’s just too versatile to …
Edit text like Emacs in FreeDOS: On Linux, I often use the GNU Emacs editor to write the source code for new programs. I learned GNU Emacs long ago when I was an undergraduate student, and I still have the “finger memory” for all the keyboard shortcuts. When I started work on FreeDOS in 1994, …
Try this Linux text editor for Emacs fans: GNU Emacs is a very famous editor, but not everyone knows that emacs is a tradition of text editors rather than just one specific application. The term “emacs” is actually a portmanteau of “Editor Macros,” and the first one was programmed in 1976 as a set of …
Why I love Emacs: I’m a habitual Emacs user. I didn’t choose Emacs as much as it chose me. Back when I was first learning about Unix, I stumbled upon a little-known feature in a strange application called Emacs, which was apparently hidden away on my computer. Legend had it (and was proven true) that …
Why I switched from Vim to Emacs: I have been a loyal Vim user since, well, I don’t even remember any longer. Over the years, I tried other editors, but Vim commands and keyboard shortcuts are second nature to me, so much so that I ended up doing :w every time I wanted to save …
Install GNU Emacs on Windows: GNU Emacs is a popular text editor designed for programmers of all sorts. Because it was developed on Unix and is widely used on Linux (and shipped with macOS), people sometimes don’t realize that it’s also available for Microsoft Windows. You don’t need to be an experienced or full-time programmer …
5 ways to use Emacs as your RPG dashboard: There are two ways to play a tabletop role-playing game (RPG): You can play an adventure written by the game’s publisher or an independent author, or you can play an adventure that is made up as you go. Regardless of which you choose, there’s probably prep …
Send email and check your calendar with Emacs: Last year, I brought you 19 days of new (to you) productivity tools for 2019. This year, I’m taking a different approach: building an environment that will allow you to be more productive in the new year, using tools you may or may not already be using. …
Schedule a visit with the Emacs psychiatrist: Welcome to another day of the 24-day-long Linux command-line toys advent calendar. If this is your first visit to the series, you might be asking yourself what a command-line toy even is. We’re figuring that out as we go, but generally, it could be a game, or any simple diversion that …
3 Emacs modes for taking notes: No matter what line of work you’re in, it’s inevitable you have to take a few notes. Often, more than a few. If you’re like many people in this day and age, you take your notes digitally. read more: Opensource.com ScottNesbitt Supporting Open Source. Have you tried: Visiting Port Elizabeth?
Top 10 June must-reads: Bash tips, Dropbox and Adobe Lightroom alternatives, Emacs vs. Vim, Linux tricks, and more: In June Opensource.com brought in 736,312 unique visitors, a 20% year over year increase, who generated 1,180,106 page views for the month. We published 84 articles and welcomed 26 new authors. More than 65% of our content …
Why agile teams fail, Bash tips, Emacs vs. Vim, 12 fiction reads for Linux fans, and other greatest hits: Let’s look back at the most popular reads from the week of June 11-17: read more: Opensource.com Rikki Endsley Supporting Open Source. Have you tried: Visiting Port Elizabeth?
Emacs, Vim, or something else?: Some topics are just bound to bring about a roaring argument spirited intellectual discussion. At the dinner table, it might be religion or politics. But among open source users, aside from asking about preferred Linux distributions, the next most rabblerousing stimulating question is likely around what text editor you prefer. read more: …
5 Emacs modes for writers: Not all writers work within the confines of a word processor. More than a few of us tap out words in a humble (and sometimes not so humble) text editor. When you find a text editor that works for you, and works the way you want it to, you tend …
How to create slides with Emacs Org mode and Reveal.js: Over the last year or so, I’ve started to get heavily back into using Emacs and the Org mode package (for taking notes, organizing yourself, and more). I’ve also started dipping my toes back into the water of giving short presentations. I’ve been wondering how to …
Top 5: Emacs and Vim alternatives, Linux cluster admin tips, and more: In this week’s top 5, we take a look at Emacs and Vim alternatives, Linux cluster admin tips, and more. read more: Opensource.com Don Watkins Supporting Open Source. Have you tried: Visiting Port Elizabeth?
3 Emacs extensions for getting organized: In the colophon to his book, Just a Geek, actor and writer Wil Wheaton wrote that he wanted to use Emacs to write the book but “couldn’t find the text editor.” Wheaton was joking, of course, but he highlighted an important point about Emacs: it’s gone way beyond its …
Vim or Emacs: Which text editor do you prefer?: It may be 2016, but among many developers and system administrators, the editor war is still alive and well. Vim (and vi) or Emacs: Both have strong followings, and of course, plenty of people use something else entirely. Which do you prefer? read more: Opensource.com admin Supporting Open Source. …