Emacs for You (Emfy): Tiny init.el for beginners to quickly set up vanilla Emacs by susam

This project provides a tiny init.el file to set up Emacs quickly. This document provides a detailed description of how to set it up and get started with Emacs. Further this project also provides a tiny convenience command named em to start Emacs server and edit files using Emacs server. This helps in using Emacs

ByHackTechAugust 4, 20230Comments

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Interview with an Emacs Enthusiast in 2023 [Colorized] [video] by fwungy

Your browser is no longer supported. Update it to get the best YouTube experience and our latest features. Learn moreRemind me l

ByHackTechJuly 9, 20230Comments

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Mastering Emacs Together – An update from out book club meetups by susam

By Susam Pal on 02 Apr 2023 Book Club We have a Mastering Emacs Book Club that meets every weekend to read and discuss the book Mastering Emacs, 2022 edition written by Mickey Petersen. We go through a few pages of the book every time we meet, do some demos, and talk about the concepts

ByHackTechApril 2, 20230Comments

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A ChatGPT Emacs Shell by xenodium

I had been meaning to give ChatGPT a go. Preferably from Emacs. As an eshell fan, ChatGPT just seemed like the perfect fit for a shell interface sorts. With that in mind, I set out to wire ChatGPT out with Emacs’s general command interpreter (comint). I had no previous experience building anything comint-related, so I

ByHackTechMarch 21, 20230Comments

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Beautifying Emacs Org Plot with YASnippet and Context Menus by kickingvegas

In using Org tables, it is a natural desire to visualize the data captured in them. Org Plot is a built-in feature in Org to do just that without having to leave Emacs. That said, a couple of caveats with using Org Plot out of the box: Without configuration, Org Plot output is ugly. Making

ByHackTechJanuary 30, 20230Comments

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Emacs NG: A new approach to Emacs by signa11

A new approach to Emacs homepage • Deno/Javascript • webrender • ng-module • handbook • faq Intro# emacs-ng is based off of the master branch of emacs, and regularly merges in the latest changes (this branch includes the native compilation feature from Andrea Corallo). The last merged commit is 6ebe8b03d8 (Aug 24 2021). Motivation# The

ByHackTechJanuary 4, 20230Comments

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Long, long, long live Emacs after 39 years by edward

Reading Planet Debian (see, Sam, we are still having a conversation over there? 😉), I read Anarcat’s 20+ years of Emacs. And.. Well, should I brag contribute to the discussion? Of course, why not? Emacs is the first computer program I can name that I ever learnt to use to do something minimally useful. 39…

ByHackTechMarch 28, 20220Comments

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