Just recently I upgraded one of my Dell laptops to the latest Ubuntu 26.04 LTS with a clean install. The installation process was smooth and enjoyable. Ubuntu 26.04 ships with Emacs 30.2, which made me happy, so I installed it immediately—m…
Many experienced Emacs users still switch to CLion or Visual Studio when it's time to debug their C or C++ code. In my years of using Emacs, I’ve noticed a common pattern: developers who are highly proficient at editing source code in Emacs…
Many experienced Emacs users still switch to CLion or Visual Studio when it's time to debug their C or C++ code. In my years of using Emacs, I’ve noticed a common pattern: developers who are highly proficient at editing source code in Emacs…
Built my entire first open-source C++ library completely inside Emacs — no IDE, just pure Emacs. Then r/cpp rejected the announcement because “the whole project is LLM-generated slop.” Welcome to the new normal. Just a couple of days ago, I…
I recently came across a Reddit post titled How to group buffers that are important to visit later which discusses various methods for buffer grouping in Emacs. In the comments, which are typically … These days, I’ve come across numerous po…
I recently came across a Reddit post titled How to group buffers that are important to visit later which discusses various methods for buffer grouping in Emacs. In the comments, which are typically engaging, some users mentioned using the b…
These days, I’ve come across numerous posts and Reddit threads praising Org mode as one of the most compelling features of Emacs. There’s no doubt this is true, and I’m amazed by how many people use Emacs solely for Org-mode. As a software
For Linux, macOS, and MS Windows These days, I use three different operating systems at work and home: Ubuntu Linux (Dell Latitude 7490 13" laptop), Microsoft Windows (Dell Latitude 7400 13" laptop), and macOS (27" iMac). My primary tool ac…
Efficient switching between windows in Emacs Last week there were some quite interesting posts about windows management in Emacs — Emacs’ windows navigations and some Emacs zen (a review by Irreal), Emacs window management tweaking, for ins…
Enabling automatic time-stamping in Emacs I do almost all my text editing in Emacs, and it would be worth to store the last modified date/time of a file — org/plain text/source code/whatever — in the file, without consulting the file system…
Blog: Enabling the full-text RSS entry for Elfeed To read my newspapers I load my RSS feed via the elfeed package. … Also, I identify any RSS feed entry that does not provide the full text. And those live in provisional status. My reflexes
Software reproducibility testing is a critical aspect of software development and maintenance. It ensures that software is reliable, consistent, and predictable and that it can be easily replicated and verified by others. Ana Pustan, Reprod…