A few weeks ago I wrote an article about the state of package management in Emacs. In that article I pointed out that on the side of package.el too much was riding on the poorly maintained Marmalad...

I’d like to apologize to everyone insulted by my previous posts. Contrary to popular belief I acknowledge EmacsWiki’s contribution to the Emacs community. Obviously many people are too fond of its ...

Prelude Yesterday I wrote a highly controversial article about the state of the EmacsWiki and suggested a few things we can do to make things better. I got the usual batch of hate mail and some re...

Prelude Emacs is slowly, but firmly moving in the right direction with Emacs 24. A lot of new important features are coming, the release date is nearing, but there is something worrisome on the ot...

When I program in Java I usually leave the comfort of Emacs and use IntelliJ IDEA instead (for various reasons that are irrelevant to this post). IDEA has one particularly nice feature - “auto-save...

Many people are having trouble remembering all the rake tasks defined in a particular project’s Rakefile (especially if they hadn’t authored it). This is quite normal given the fact that Rails’s Ra...

Some times you’d want to quickly repeat an Emacs command several times and most of the time it won’t have a convenient keybinding you can use to do this. Enter C-x z (repeat) - it simply repeats th...

Prelude Let’s face it - although a vanilla Emacs installation is quite powerful almost nobody is using Emacs without a pile of add-ons. And managing those add-ons is quite frankly a pain in the as...

Prelude If there is something that people love as much as tweaking their editing configurations it’s probably the selection of color themes. A good color theme can make your work much more pleasan...

I’ve created a new port of the Solarized color theme for Emacs 24. While there is another existing port of the theme I’ve decided to into a separate direction since I’ve wanted to keep the developm...