I’m happy to be back after one year away and it feels great.

Below are some chaotic mini/micro – or even nano – excerpts from my ~/.emacs file I have been tuning in for 12 years. These days, I’m running Emacs 29.4 on Ubuntu (Pop!_OS) 22.04 and, rarely, on macOS.

After reading a quite interesting post by Irreal on Org mode clock tables, I decided to share my — a bit specific — experience with the subject.

Recently, I’ve discovered a number of posts on Reddit — like tree-sitter-hl-mode does not do anything or How to use Emacs 29 Tree-sitter? — and decided to share my simple tree-sitter setup that seems to be working on my Emacs 28.2 like a charm.

I’m a big fan of Eshell, but some things in Eshell look, hmm, a bit strange. One of such things is how the Eshell’s command clear clears the screen.

Irreal has recently published a post with a reference to the Vernon Grant’s emacs-keyboard-shortcuts README that contains a list of Emacs keyboard shortcuts Vernon uses on a regular basis.

If you are an emacser, you are probably already following the Sacha Chua’s blog. If you are not, you should. Sacha maintains an incredible blog on Emacs-related news, upcoming events, Org Mode, configuration, new packages, and many other things from the Emacs world.

As it’s described in the GNU Emacs Manual, an abbreviation or abbrev is a string of characters that may be expanded to a longer string. The user can insert the abbrev string and find it replaced automatically with the expansion of the abbrev. This saves typing.

Do you use #Emacs to run shells or terminal emulators? Well, you should. With vterm you have a fast alternative to the builtin ansi-term. And if you prefer shells, you’ve got EShell and Shell Mode. And don’t forget serial-term for embedded programming. — Mickey Petersen (@mickeynp) on Twitter, July 18, 2022.

Working with satellite data I often have to convert a coordinate value or an angle value from the DMS notation (degree@minute’second") to a decimal degree in the floating point number format and vice versa.

I started this blog in 2017. After a long break, I decided to continue blogging about various things related to Emacs. And not just to Emacs. Also, I’ve switched from Jekyll to Hugo for a variety of reasons, mainly because of the Mainroad theme.