Update: For the rubes from /r/emacs, furrowing their brows in a vain attempt to understand the situation, my EmacsWiki page might help contextualize my views. I stopped using Magit with Emacs a few months ago. Initially this was just because Magit added a new dependency cond-let that was conflicting the upstream development of a macro by the same name, but I had already taken issue with the number…
I have raised dibs on hosting the Emacs (Blog) Carnival for March of 2026 What is a Blog Carnival ? In case you haven’t heard about this tradition, the aforelinked EmacsWiki article summarises it as: A blog carnival is a form of independent, personally curated content aggregation, often hosted by different people in rotation, in which the host would write a post linking to any posts submitted on…
It is about five years ago that I submitted a package called setup to GNU ELPA 1 . The premise was simple, I had grown dissatisfied with use-package and wanted to implement my own “configuration macro” that would be a better fit for packages written in a good style . In this post I’d like to look back on the package and the macro, to chronicle my experience and the lessons I took away. Issues with…
I while back I wrote up a sketch to interpret Ini -style configuration files for Emacs. Here I want to present and discuss the idea briefly. Syntax For those wondering how a “ini-style init file” looks like (I certainly would), I translated parts of my init.el into a syntax that ini.el can handle, to give an idea of how these files look like: enable inhibit-startup-screen set mode-line-compact…
The following is a contribution to the Emacs Carnival , specifically topic set of August, 2025: “ Your Elevator Pitch for Emacs ”. I have to be honest that I don’t like participating in these kinds of trends, but the idea of having a shared writing prompt is interesting so I’d like to contribute my take on how I “sell” Emacs. For the quick and short “elevator pitch”, I will translate/paraphrase a…