#emacs

If you’re a nerd comfortable with the idea of rolling your own software, everything is now programmable, not merely in a technical sense but a practical one. And that gets to a feeling I think a lot of people have when creating software with agents: what does it mean to say you’re “building” it? “Building” implies more effort than you’re expending. What you’re doing feels a lot more like configuring, on a platform that has suddenly become vastly more configurable. A platform that feels a lot more like Emacs.

Forget Apple vs. Google. Emacs and Vi have been battling for text-editor supremacy among programmers for 40 years.

"erin.el is an Emacs editing mode for the Wiki markup of TWiki. The current version of erin.el mostly just does semi-WYSIWYG fontifying and heading renumbering."

"There is a 3 member community for using GNU Emacs as a video editor"

It's like an insane variant on outline-mode

"So now I'm using OS X the way Jeebus intended: with a single full-screen emacs frame running ECB with a shell buffer along the bottom."

"The default behavior of speedbar is to create a second emacs frame, separate from the main editing frame. As with all things emacs, this default behavior can be modified so that no separate frame is created, and the speedbar becomes just another buffer w