Xah Emacs Blog

Update Highlights

• LISP vs WolframLang

• Xah Talk Show 2024-06-11 Ep558, Which is Best Lisp? Common Lisp, Scheme, Elisp, Clojure, Wolfram Language

• Emacs Init: Whitespace Mode

• Emacs: Replace HTML Entities 🚀

• Emacs: Insert Emoji
• Emacs: Insert Unicode Character

• Emacs: Show Holidays

• LISP Girl

• Xah Talk Show 2024-08-30 Ep581, Emacs Lisp Coding, Command to Rename Variables, Paul Graham Website Tech 1999

• 2024-08-29
• Emacs: Xah JS Mode (JavaScript) 📦
• xah-js-eval-line and xah-js-eval-region now take universal-argument, to insert result in buffer.

• 2024-08-29
• Emacs: Xah PowerShell Mode 📦
• new. xah-pwsh-eval-region, xah-pwsh-eval-current-line

• 2024-08-29
• Emacs: Xah Wolfram Mode 📦
• xah-wolfram-eval-region and xah-wolfram-eval-current-line can take universal-argument to insert result to buffer.

• Emacs: Xah Toggle Theme 🚀

• Xah Talk Show 2024-08-27 Ep579, Web History WHATWG vs W3C Split, Emacs Lisp HTML Convert PNG to JPG

• Emacs: Real Automatic Save File
• Emacs: #auto-save# (hashtagged filename)
• Emacs: Refresh, Revert File

• Emacs: Zip Dir in Dired 🚀

which editor by default highlight the current line? vscode, sublime, textmate, or other?

updated

• Emacs: Insert Date Time 🚀
• Emacs: Interactive Abbrev 🚀
• Emacs: fido-mode (Minibuffer Name Completion)

• Xah Talk Show 2024-08-22 Ep576, Emacs Lisp Coding, Toggle Theme, Print List, ErgoEmacs, Gun Emoji

updates

• 🆕 Emacs: Xah Fly Keys, How to Indent
• Emacs: Xah Fly Keys, Key for Org-Mode

• Launch Emacs
• Emacs: Start Emacs on MacOS from Terminal

updates

• Emacs: Init File Tutorial
• Emacs: Ignore Init File
• 🆕 Timing Emacs Init
• Emacs in Microsoft Windows FAQ
• 🆕 Linux Tools Needed by Emacs on Windows

• Elisp: Association List
• Elisp: Sequence Join, Convert
• Elisp: Apply Function (List to Args)

• Elisp: load, load-file, autoload
• 🆕 Elisp: Load Path

• Emergency vim
• vim, 3 Decades Pile of History
• History of vi Keys
• Arrow Keys: vim HJKL vs Inverted T
• Interview with Bill Joy (creator of vi)

• LISP Trump

• Emacs Fun Index

updates

• Emacs: Set Default Window Size
• Emacs Init: Sample Init File
• Emacs Init: Set Color Theme
• 🆕 Emacs Init: Set Background Color

• Emacs: Xah Fly Keys, Key for Org-Mode

• Emacs Init: Organize Init File
• Elisp: Get Script Name at Run Time, Call by Relative Path

more updates.

• Elisp: Sequence Functions
• 🆕 Elisp: Sequence Union, Intersection, Difference
• Elisp: Map to Sequence
• Elisp: Sequence Find

• Emacs Regex Quirk: Matching Beginning/End of Line/String/Buffer

• Line Wrap at 70 Chars, from Punchcards

• Emacs: Byte Compile Elisp Files

master emacs lisp loop and iteration. major updates.

• Elisp: Loop
• Elisp: List Iteration
• Elisp: Sequence Iteration
• Elisp: Sequence Filter
• 🆕 Elisp: Foreach (Side-Effect)
• 🆕 Elisp: Sequence Map Insert
• 🆕 Elisp: Map to Sequence
• 🆕 Elisp: Sequence Iteration, Conditional Exit

• Elisp: Exit Loop or Function (throw, catch)

• Xah Talk Show 2024-08-15 Ep575, Emacs Lisp, Command to Add HTML Attribute

• 2024-08-13
• Emacs: Xah Wolfram Mode 📦
• xah-wolfram-eval-region now work on current text block when no text selection.

Emacs org mode security emergency

just org mode is affected, not emacs.

but there's new emacs release, emacs 29.4, that fixed the org mode problem.

• Download Emacs for Windows/Mac

• Xah Talk Show 2024-08-11 Ep573, Emacs Lisp, Validate Matching Brackets, Part 2

• Elisp: Validate Matching Brackets 🚀

• Xah Talk Show 2024-08-10 Ep572, Emacs Lisp, Validate Matching Brackets

updates

• Launch Emacs
• Start Emacs in Microsoft Windows

• Elisp: Sequence Iteration
• Elisp: Buffer Functions

• 2024-07-25
• Emacs: Xah Fly Keys 📦
• xah-close-current-buffer now also record dired buffer, so can xah-open-last-closed

• 2024-07-25
• Emacs: Xah HTML Mode 📦
• new: xah-html-insert-page-template , xah-html-move-text-block

• Xah Talk Show 2024-07-24 Ep566, Emacs Lisp, add twitter cards to 10 thousand files

• Emacs: Jump to Previous Position

• Xah Talk Show 2024-07-22 Ep564, Emacs Lisp Coding, highlight duplicate links

new. pepe anti emacs pill

• Emacs Fun Index

• Xah Talk Show 2024-07-19 Ep563, Emacs Lisp Coding move-html-text-block and random chat

• Emacs Init: Dired Config
• 🆕 Emacs: Dired, Show All Subdirectories 🚀
• 🆕 Xah Dired Toggle Human Readable File Size 🚀

• Emacs: Search Text in Directory

• Emacs: List Matching Lines

• LISP Logo

• Emacs Keys: Change Minor Mode Keys

• Emacs: Open Python Doc 🚀
• Emacs: Insert Random Number or String 🚀

• 2024-07-15
• Emacs: Xah Dired Mode (xah-dired.el) 📦
• xah-dired-toggle-human-readable-size new.
• xah-dired-metadata-remover-path renamed to xah-dired-exiftool-path

• 2024-07-15
• Emacs: Xah HTML Mode 📦
• xah-html-make-citation now use TORTOISE SHELL BRACKET.
• xah-html--get-youtube-id renamed to xah-get-youtube-id.
• xah-normalize-youtube-url new.
• image link functions now use xah-get-image-dimensions instead of calling imagemagick, unless necessary.

minor updates.

• Emacs: Xah Fly Keys Customization
• Emacs: Xah Fly Keys, Setup Keys for Major Mode

• Emacs: Messages Buffer
• Emacs Principle, Command and Keys

• Elisp: Buffer Functions

• Xah Talk Show 2024-07-07 Ep560, Emacs Lisp Coding, Get Youtube Video Thumbnail

updates

• 🆕 Emacs: Shell on Microsoft Windows
• Emacs: Run Shell in Emacs
• Emacs Init: Change Default Shell (PowerShell)
• Emacs: eshell

• Emacs: Keyboard Macro Commands
• Emacs: ido mode 👎
• Emacs Init: Save Cursor Position

updates

• dired-do-find-marked-files open all marked files.
• Emacs Init: Dired Config Emacs: File Manager, dired
• Emacs: shell vs eshell vs term

• 2024-07-03
• Emacs: Xah Fly Keys 📦
• xah-shrink-whitespaces minor refactor. removed xah-delete-blank-lines, xah-fly-delete-spaces

• 2024-07-05
• Emacs: Xah HTML Mode 📦
• xah-html-youtube-normalize-url now support query string.
• xah-html-keyboard-shortcut-markup better, now normalize command key opt key etc.
• xah-html-pop-back-source-code, xah-html-toggle-syntax-color-tags changed cursor position requirement. experimental.
• xah-html-change-current-tag changed cursor position requirement.

major updates

• 🆕 Emacs Init: Mouse Button Syntax
• Emacs Init: Mouse Wheel Config
• Emacs: Mouse Wheel Commands
• 🆕 Emacs Init: Disable Mouse Highlight
• 🆕 Emacs Init: Define Command for Mouse Click
• Emacs: Mouse Click to Highlight Matching Words