Xah Emacs Blog Archive 2022-01

• Elisp: String Functions add string-pad, string-lines

• Creating Strings (ELISP Manual)

major rework on emacs lisp sequences datatype

• Elisp: Cons Cell
• 🆕 Elisp: Proper List
• Elisp: Vector
• Elisp: List
• Elisp: List vs Vector
• Elisp: Sequence Type
• Elisp: Sequence Functions
• 🆕 Elisp: Sequence Join, Convert
• Elisp: Sequence Iteration
• Elisp: Lambda Function

• 🆕 Emacs: Transpose Matrix 🚀

• Xah Talk Show 2022-12-29 Advent of Code Day 5, in Emacs Lisp, Live Coding
• Xah Talk Show 2022-12-30 Advent of Code Day 5 B, in Emacs Lisp, Live Coding

updates and new

• now better organization of the navigation panel. Elisp: How to Write a Command
• 🆕 Elisp: File Path Functions
• Elisp: Buffer Functions
• Elisp: Cut Copy Paste, kill-ring
• Elisp: How to Write a Command

• Why Emacs Keys are Painful

highlight: Why Common Lisp Sucks, and Xah Lee is a Troll https://youtu.be/Oqt9aSw0Qaw?t=1944 from Xah Talk Show 2022-11-28 Why Common Lisp Sucks, and Xah Lee is a Troll, lispm

• Xah Talk Show 2022-12-08 杀杀演绎 Emacs Lisp 简介

updates and new

• How to Avoid Emacs Pinky
• Emacs: Insert Brackets by Pair 🚀

• Emacs: Keyboard Macro Commands
• 🆕 Stefan Monnier (and Chong Yidong), Emacs Maintainer, 2008 to 2015

• Xah Talk Show 2022-12-06 Characteristics of Lisp, WolframLang vs Lisp, Why Emacs Paredit Sucks

• Emacs 29 (Released 2023-07)

the after 10 years, emacs finally have redo.

• Emacs Modernization: Simple Changes Emacs Should Adopt

• on vi Keybinding vs Emacs Keybinding
• vim, 3 Decades Pile of History
• Vim: Remap Escape Key
• Emacs Modernization: Meta Key Notation
• Emacs Modernization: Simple Changes Emacs Should Adopt
• GNU Emacs and XEmacs Schism (2001)
• Emergency vim
• Lisp Celebrities and Computing History from “Worse Is Better”
• Emacs Repetitive Strain Injury, My Experience
• GNU Emacs and XEmacs Schism (2001)

updates and new. string and buffer.

• 🆕 Elisp: Convert String to Buffer Text
• Emacs: Regular Expression
• Elisp: String Functions
• Elisp: Get Buffer String

• Emacs: Git Commit Message with Unicode

2022-10-31 Emacs: Xah Fly Keys 📦 More major internal change. No user visible change.

Internal implementation change. New function xah-fly-define-keys. This is called by xah-fly-keys-set-layout. Basically, command mode keys and leader keys are set by this function. It was several code blocks calling xah-fly--define-keys. Now they all moved into this new function, so that xah-fly-keys-set-layout no longer has to reload whole file. It now just call the new function.

• Xah Talk Show 2022-10-30 Emacs, Most Efficient Ways to Insert Unicode, Emoji, Math Symbols

• Emacs: xah-insert-unicode 🚀
• Xah Emacs Commands

• code update Emacs: Format JavaScript Code 🚀

updates and new.

• 🆕 Emacs: Declare Encoding for a File
• Emacs: File Encoding
• Emacs Init: Set Default File Encoding

• Language Server Protocol (LSP) Kills Emacs

Emacs: Xah Fly Keys 📦

More major internal change 2022-10-26. No user visible change.

• removed all explicitly named keymaps that are used in xah-fly-leader-key-map. e.g. xah-fly-t-key-map (qwerty k, of Space k sequence) is gone, and its keymap is just part of definition of xah-fly-leader-key-map with a sequence of keys. Much simpler.
• removed the redundant binding ("1" . xah-extend-selection) ("2" . xah-select-line) use key 7 and 8 instead.

Emacs: Xah Fly Keys 📦

• More major internal change. No user visible change.
• xah-fly--key-char is now gone. replaced by xah-fly--convert-kbd-str. the latter converts any `kbd' argument, instead of a single char. xah-fly--define-keys is changed to use the new.
• Replaced all keymap names from xah-fly-Rp2p1-key-map to xah-fly-c-key-map. The former (finger based) naming is hard to understand. (The letter based naming is based on dvorak layout.) (also, in the future, these keymap vars will be removed, instead, relying on define-key to auto generate them.)
• Changed the implementation of the qwerty (space e) keymap to rely on auto-generated by define-key.

• Emacs: Xah Fly Keys, Modify Leader Key Sequence

• added a function alist-get Elisp: Association List

xah-fly-keys major internal change. xah-fly-layouts

Emacs: Xah Fly Keys 📦

• New. var xah-fly-layouts holds a list of layouts. Supported layouts can be programatically listed.
• function xah-fly-keys-set-layout major change. No longer support M-x customize. Reason: supporting it makes the code much more complex.
• var xah-fly-key-current-layout changed accordingly.
• renamed xah-fly--current-layout-kmap to xah-fly--key-convert-table
• here is some detail. the layout was variables, e.g. • xah--dvorak-to-azerty-kmap • xah--dvorak-to-azerty-be-kmap • xah--dvorak-to-beopy-kmap etc. now these variables are string keys of xah-fly-layouts, with prefx xah--dvorak-to- dropped and suffix -kmap dropped, so the names are just azerty, azerty-be, etc. value remain the same.
• starting to phase out using symbol for layout names. Symbol pollutes symbol table. and string is more intuitive, universal. e.g. (xah-fly-keys-set-layout 'qwerty) should be (xah-fly-keys-set-layout "qwerty")

some update to doc. (not related to the change above though.)

• Emacs: Xah Fly Keys Customization
• Emacs: Xah Fly Keys, Add Keys to Switch Mode
• Emacs: Xah Fly Keys, Modify Leader Key Sequence

updates.

• Emacs: 1 Key for M-x
• Emacs Keys: Add Custom Keys

• Emacs: Undo Saga
• Emacs Undo and Emacs Cult Problem (2011)
• Elisp: Enable Undo in Buffer
• Emacs Init: Standard Copy Cut Paste Keys
• Emacs Keys: Add Custom Keys

emacs 28 new feature, redo.

New command undo-redo. This command is typically known as redo.

(setq undo-no-redo t)

** New command undo-redo. It undoes previous undo commands, but doesn't record itself as an undoable command. It is bound to 'C-?' and 'C-M-_', the first binding works well in graphical mode, and the second one is easy to hit on tty.

For full conventional undo/redo behavior, you can also customize the user option undo-no-redo to t.

• Emacs 28 (Released 2022-04)

• Emacs Keys: Set Key to Insert Unicode Emoji
• Emacs: Swap Keys (Remap Key, translation-keymaps)

• Emacs: File Encoding

massive updates again.

• Emacs: Get Character Info, Cursor Position
• Emacs Init: Show Cursor Column Position
• Emacs: Insert Unicode Character
• Emacs Init: Update Unicode Data
• Emacs Init: Display Lambda as λ
• Emacs: Newline Convention

• Emacs Init: Show Line Numbers
• Emacs: Setup Hundreds of Abbrevs

• Elisp: Unicode Escape Sequence
• Elisp: Character Type
• Elisp: Find Syntax of a Char

• Emacs in Microsoft Windows FAQ
• Emacs init file location in Microsoft Windows

the emacs key panel, e.g. at Emacs Keys: Define Key, essays about keybinding that's not practical emacs use are moved to Emacs Misc Index

misc other updates:

• Emacs: Find Replace in Current File
• Emacs: Case Sensitivity in Text Search Commands
• Emacs: File Manager, dired
• Emacs: Insert A to Z Vertically 🚀
• Emacs: Comment, Uncomment

more update. starting to make my tutorial more book-like, suitable for absolute beginners.

• Download Emacs for Windows/Mac
• Emacs: Show Version
• Launch Emacs
• Emacs for Android
• Emacs Basics

massive updates.

• Emacs: Sort Lines
• Emacs: List Matching Lines
• Emacs: Bookmark

• Emacs: Regular Expression
• Emacs: Regex Backslash in Command Prompt
• Emacs: Regular Expression Syntax
• Emacs: Case Sensitivity in Text Search Commands
• Emacs: Wildcards vs Regular Expression

lots updates. now, pages that's just a custom emacs lisp command has a rocket 🚀 indicator

• Xah Emacs Commands
• Emacs: How to Edit Lisp Code

Emacs, Work with Brackets

• Emacs Init: Highlight Brackets
• Emacs Init: Auto Insert Closing Bracket (electric-pair-mode)
• Emacs: Insert Brackets by Pair 🚀
• Emacs: Delete Brackets by Pair 🚀
• Emacs: Move Cursor to Bracket 🚀
• Emacs: Jump to Matching Bracket 🚀
• Emacs: Change Brackets 🚀
• Emacs: Navigate Lisp Code as Tree
• Emacs: Select Text Between Quotes 🚀
• Emacs: Xah Elisp Mode 📦

massive updates. updated many screenshots that's 15 years old, and other updates, move section to new page, re-org, new nav box of related articles, and many rewrites etc. this more review and edit to do, but if i continue, the list wont stop. so, webfeeding it now.

• Emacs: Select Text (mark and region)
• Emacs: Comment, Uncomment
• Emacs Calculator
• Emacs Calendar
• Emacs: Split Window
• Emacs Basics Tips
• Fun with Emacs
• Emacs: View Info Page

• Emacs: Insert Tab or Newline
• Emacs: Newline Convention
• Emacs: Change a File's Line Endings
• Emacs: Convert File Line Ending 🚀

• Emacs: Copy Current Line If No Selection 🚀
• Emacs: Copy Paste, kill-ring
• Emacs: Copy to Register
• Emacs: Copy to Register 1 🚀
• Emacs: Copy Rectangle Region to kill-ring 🚀
• Emacs Init: Standard Copy Cut Paste Keys

• Emacs: Refresh, Revert File
• Emacs: View Image File
• Emacs: Toggle Comment Current Line 🚀

• Emacs in Microsoft Windows FAQ
• Emacs: Run Shell
• Emacs: Terminal Emulator (run ssh)
• Emacs Init: Change Default Shell (PowerShell)

• Emacs: Lookup Function Documentation
• Emacs: Show Variable Value
• Emacs: List All Functions

• Emacs: Evaluate Elisp Code

• Xah Talk Show 2022-09-29 the Most Efficient Emacs Workflow, more efficient than vim
• Emacs: Open, Save, Save As, Close, Quit
• Emacs: Fullscreen vs Multiple Windows

am on lbry/odysee. follow me there.

Xah Talk Show 2022-09-28 emacs lisp. extract html links, insert to each page https://odysee.com/@XahLee:b/emacs-lisp-coding.-extract-html-links,:a

• Xah Talk Show 2022-09-28 emacs lisp. extract html links, insert to each page
• Emacs: HTML, Extract URL 🚀

new and updates.

• Emacs Keys: Meta Key
• Emacs Keys: Define Key
• Best Keyboards for Emacs

• Emacs Init: Dired Display File Size with Number Seperators
• Emacs Init: Dired Config

code updates

• Emacs: Format JavaScript Code 🚀
• Emacs: Insert Random Number or String 🚀

• Elisp: Hash Table
• Elisp: Pretty Print Hash Table 🚀
• Elisp: Hash Table to List 🚀
• Elisp: Sort Hash Table 🚀

• Xah Talk Show 2022-09-22 Emacs Lisp Coding. Write Command to Add HTML Section Tags

• Xah Talk Show 2022-09-21 Emacs Lisp Coding, Write Command to Demote HTML Headers

All keyboard layout diagram changed. instead of button, now radio box, indicating current layout.

• Emacs: Xah Fly Keys Tutorial
• Emacs: Xah Fly Keys 📦
• Xah Fly Keys Layout for Kinesis/Ergodox Keyboard

• Xah Talk Show 2022-09-15 Emacs Key Macro

• Emacs: Keyboard Macro
• Emacs: Keyboard Macro Commands

• Emacs: Command Name Alias

misc new and updates

• Elisp: What is DOLLAR Sign and AT Sign in Variable Name

• Emacs: Abbrev No Space
• Emacs: Replace Invisible Unicode Chars 🚀

• on vi Keybinding vs Emacs Keybinding

• Keybinding Design: Muscle Memory vs Mnemonics

Xah Fly Keys update for colemak dh layout

Emacs: Xah Fly Keys 📦 update for colemak dh layout.

fix and new keymaps for the Colemak DH layout variations. Now with more accurate name for the Colemak DH variations: dhm, dhk, and dhk with angle-mode.

For users, change your layout to one of:

• "colemak-dhm"
• "colemak-dhm-angle"
• "colemak-dhk"

the following layout names are removed:

• colemak-mod-dh (use colemak-dhk instead)
• colemak-mod-dh-new (use colemak-dhm-angle instead)

internal:

• new: xah--dvorak-to-colemak-dhm-kmap is the offical Colemak DH (aka DHm) layout.
• new: xah--dvorak-to-colemak-dhm-angle-kmap is the Colemak DHm layout with angle-mode.
• new: xah--dvorak-to-colemak-dhk-kmap is the Colemak DHk layout.
• old: xah--dvorak-to-colemak-mod-dh-kmap is now removed. (it was for Colemak DHk)
• old: xah--dvorak-to-colemak-mod-dh-new-kmap is now removed. (it was for Colemak DHm angle mode)

• Emacs calc sucks

• Xah Talk Show 2022-09-07 Emacs Lisp for Beginner

xtodo

new discovery in Emacs 28 (Released 2022-04) . insert-char

xtodo

• xah-cite
• xah-open-file-from-clipboard
• xah-open-file-at-cursor

Idiotic url parser in emacs lisp. url-generic-parse-url. Elaborate overly complex code, uses common lisp lib, and, doesn't parse query string part.

xtodo work in progress

• Emacs: Interactive Find Replace Text in Directory
• Emacs: Dired Sort File by Time, Size 🚀

• Emacs: Init File Tutorial
• Emacs Init: Sample Init File
• Emacs: Ignore Init File
• Emacs: Command Line Options
• Elisp: Run Emacs Lisp Script in Shell

• Emacs: Org Mode, Work with Source Code (org-babel)

• Xah Talk Show 2022-08-27 Automatic Code Formatting: JavaScript Python PowerShell Golang Elisp WolframLang, Emacs Integration

updates and new

• Emacs: Format JavaScript Code 🚀
• Emacs: Xah JS Mode (JavaScript) 📦

• Emacs: Xah PowerShell Mode 📦
• Emacs: Format PowerShell Code 🚀

• Emacs: Xah Go Mode 📦
• Emacs: Format Golang Code 🚀
• Emacs go-mode gofmt diff problem

• Emacs: Format Python Code 🚀

linux emacs, need help test xah-open-in-external-app • and xah-show-in-desktop

can any help test this new version on linux? (the code has already been checked-in in Emacs: Xah Fly Keys 📦 )

from emiltoacs https://github.com/xahlee/xah-fly-keys/pull/149

The linux branch of xah-open-in-external-app and xah-show-in-desktop that uses xdg-open starts another child process to open its parameters with the appropriate command then it quits however it makes emacs kill the subprocess as soon as xdg-open has finished therefore the files opened externally are also instantaneously killed.

change:

• xah-show-in-desktop_2022-08-19.el
• xah-open-in-external-app_2023-09-09.el

latest:

• Emacs: Show in Desktop 🚀
• Emacs: Open File in External App 🚀

updated or new page

• Emacs: Insert Unicode Character
• Best Unicode Fonts for Programer

• Emacs: Change Font Size
• Emacs: Change Default Font Size by Command, for Current Session 🚀
• Emacs: Cycle Fonts by Command 🚀
• Emacs Init: Display Lambda as λ

• Emacs Init: Setup Font
• Emacs Init: Minibuffer Font Size
• Emacs Init: Font for Emoji
• Emacs Init: Font for Chinese

• xah talk show 2022-08-04 emacs regular expression

• Emacs Repetitive Strain Injury, My Experience

• xah talk show 2022-07-31 emacs lisp, command to insert-random-string, hexadecimal, uuid, base64, WolframLang base36

• Emacs Jargons (Glossary)

• Emacs: Regular Expression
• Emacs: Wildcards vs Regular Expression
• Emacs: Regular Expression Syntax
• Elisp: Regular Expression
• Emacs Regex vs Regex in Python, JavaScript, Java
• Elisp: Regex Functions
• Elisp: Unicode Escape Sequence
• Elisp: Regex Named Character Class and Syntax Table

• Emacs: Evaluate Elisp Code
• Emacs: Messages Buffer
• Elisp: Comment
• Elisp: Print, Output
• Elisp: String
• Elisp: Format String

• Elisp: Cursor Position Functions
• Emacs: Show Variable Value
• Emacs: Set Default Window Size
• Emacs: Org Mode, Work with Source Code (org-babel)
• Emacs: Init File Tutorial

• Emacs go-mode gofmt diff problem

• Set Font in Init File
• Emacs Init: Font for Emoji
• Emacs Init: Font for Chinese
• GNU Emacs Removes Color Emoji Support on the Mac (2016)

• xah talk show 2022-07-22 emacs lisp, parse url, regex, trigram, hexagram

• new Elisp: Lambda

updated:

• Elisp: Vector
• Elisp: Symbol
• Elisp: Quoting Symbol
• Emacs: clear-transient-map bug

emacs bug. if u have a lang with comment syntax such as

/▮/ comment
/▮* comment */
(▮* comment *)

and cursor is on after the 1st char in the line, then you do (nth 4 (syntax-ppss)) it returns nil.

however, if cursor is at

/* comment *▮/
(* comment *▮)

it return true.

• here's the story.
• in Xah Fly Keys , there is this command
• xah-delete-backward-char-or-bracket-text.
• however, when in a programing language with this comment syntax
• (* comment *)▮
• it skips the comment and delet some other text in buffer.
• to fix this, took 5 hours today.

• Emacs: Run Elisp Code When File Opens (Persistent Highlight)
• Emacs: Bold, Underline, Color Texts (Persistent Highlight)

• Elisp: Determine Cursor is Inside String/Comment

major re-organization Xah Emacs Tutorial

now

• Lisp Basics → lisp language stuff
• Practical Emacs Lisp → emacs related lisp stuff
• Emacs Lisp Examples
• Emacs Lisp How to Write Major Mode

more updates, minor or major:

• Elisp: Write a Major Mode for Syntax Coloring
• Elisp: Font Lock Mode

• Elisp: Quick Start
• Elisp: Boolean (true false nil)
• Elisp: Convert Number, String
• Elisp: Format String

and lots other pages.

massive reorg

• Elisp: Quick Start
• Arithmetic
• Boolean
• Variable
• Block of Expression
• If Then Else
• Loop
• Function

• how many items can emacs lisp completing-read take

• xtodo review Elisp: Keyword Completion

• Emacs Init: Organize Init File
• Emacs: Init File Tutorial

all code update

• Emacs: xah-get-thing.el 📦
• Elisp: Syntax Color Source Code in HTML
• Emacs: Convert File Line Ending 🚀
• Emacs: Insert Date Time 🚀
• Emacs: Compile TypeScript File 🚀
• Emacs: Change Brackets 🚀
• Emacs: Dired Sort File by Time, Size 🚀

• Emacs: Lookup Function Documentation
• Emacs: Show Variable Value

• Emacs Init: Setup Default Browser

• new url Emacs: Xah Fly Keys 📦

• Emacs: clear-transient-map bug

• Elisp: Sequence Functions
• Elisp: Sequence Type
• Elisp: List vs Vector
• Elisp: Equality Test
• Elisp: Symbol

new version of xah emacs tutorial is generated. buy it! Sending update in this week.

• Buy Xah Emacs Tutorial

• Emacs: Run Current File 🚀
• Elisp: Get User Input

• new Emacs Keys: Major-Mode Dependent Key

updates:

• Emacs: Xah Fly Keys Customization
• Emacs: Abbrev Mode
• Emacs: Setup Hundreds of Abbrevs
• Emacs: Icomplete, Minibuffer Name Completion
• Emacs Keys: Super Hyper

new and updates

• xah talk show 2022-06-08 emacs lisp tutorial, write command to change space to newline
• Emacs: Spaces to New Lines 🚀

other updates

• Emacs: #auto-save# (hashtagged filename)
• Emacs: Turn Off Auto Backup~
• Emacs Init: Install Package from ELPA, MELPA
• Emacs Init: Install Package Manually
• Emacs: Byte Compile Elisp Files
• Emacs: Delete Emacs Backup Files
• Emacs Init: Set Default Major Mode

• new Emacs: How to Create Your Own Theme
• updated Emacs: Switch Buffer
• 2022-06-07 xtodo cperl mode freezes emacs 28.1 Emacs: perl-mode vs cperl-mode

• Elisp: Bionic Reading 🚀

updates

• Emacs: Quote Lines 🚀
• now free Emacs: xah-get-thing.el 📦
• Emacs Basics
• Emacs: Setup Hundreds of Abbrevs
• Emacs: Interactive Abbrev 🚀
• Emacs: Buffer Flow Side-by-Side

• Elisp: Property List
• Elisp: Symbol Property List
• Elisp: Text Properties

• xah talk show 2022-05-28 write a emacs lisp script to count elisp function usage frequency
• Elisp: Hash Table

• Emacs: Command Frequency Statistics
• Emacs Lisp Function Frequency
• Emacs: List All Hooks
• List of Emacs Lisp Variables

updates

• Elisp: Quick Start
• Elisp: How to Write a Command
• Elisp: Interactive Form
• Elisp: Get User Input
• Elisp: Functions on Line

• Elisp: Create Sitemap
• Emacs: Quote Lines 🚀

updated.

• Elisp: Function Parameters (optional, rest)
• Elisp: Exit Loop or Function (throw, catch)
• Elisp: Docstring Markup
• Elisp: Types of Functions

• Emacs Init: Set Color Theme
• Emacs: Theme Gallery

Xah Talk Show 2022-05-21 Emacs Lisp Coding, Bionic Reading Command

updates

• Elisp: Major Mode Names
• Elisp: load, load-file, autoload
• Elisp: provide, require, features
• Elisp: Symbol

• Emacs: Convert Chinese/Japanese Full-Width/Half-Width Punctuations 🚀
• Emacs: Convert to Full-Width Characters 🚀 (new page)

great to know. powershell does not choke by emacs Formfeed char

• Emacs: Form Feed ^L Problem
• Emacs: Form Feed ^L (Page Break)
• Emacs: Make Form Feed Character Obsolete

• xah talk show 2022-05-16 emacs, most efficient way to toggle letter case, upcase sentences, reformat lines, problems of fill-region

new and updates

• Elisp: Get System Info. minor update

• Elisp: Text Editing Functions

• Emacs: Show Variable Value
• Emacs: List All Functions

• Set Font in Init File
• Emacs: Major Mode
• Emacs: Hook

xah talk show 2022-05-12 emacs, most efficient ways to open file

and updated:

• Emacs: Bookmark
• Emacs: Open Last Closed File 🚀
• Emacs: Open Recently Opened File

Xah Talk Show 2022-05-11 How I Got into LISP, Should You Learn Wolfram Language, Math Plane Curves

updates

• Elisp: Run Emacs Lisp Script in Shell
• Download Emacs for Windows/Mac
• Fix Emacs on MacOS Cannot Access File

xtodo

• emacs 28 so-long-mode. fantastic. (also needs to fix all my pages mentioning long lines problem.)

Famous Emacs Users new addition.

• Emacs in Microsoft Windows FAQ
• Emacs Basics
• Emacs: Basic Key Shortcuts
• Emacs Init: Standard Copy Cut Paste Keys
• Emacs Basics Tips
• Emacs: Spell Checking
• Emacs: Refresh, Revert File
• Emacs: Environment Variables

updates.

• Elisp: Symbol
• Elisp: Function Parameters (optional, rest)
• Elisp: Equality Test
• Emacs: Lookup Function Documentation
• Emacs: Insert Unicode Character
• Emacs Init: Auto Insert Closing Bracket (electric-pair-mode)

xah talk show 2022-04-25 emacs lisp, write command to delete cache files, Language Server Protocol Kills Emacs

xah-fly-keys now on nonGnu ELPA. Emacs: Xah Fly Keys 📦

14 years old bug, now fixed in emacs 29. describe-mode. thanks to Lars Ingebrigtsen

• emacs bug 575, add link to info doc in describe mode
• emacs bug 2473, usability issues on emacs's describe-mode

following xtodo todo, clean up the index mess:

• Emacs: Make elisp-index-search use Current Symbol
• Emacs Misc Index

Richard Stallman, High-tech Prankster new photos. from [Don Hopkins]❮https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Hopkins❯

• xtodo work in progress Emacs 28 (Released 2022-04)

• xah talk show 2022-04-09 emacs 28, icomplete, fido, replace ido, and smex

emacs 28 added the 'emoji group of characters.

• Set Font in Init File

emacs 28 now support flex match for name completion for all commands that use minibuffer prompt. major update:

• Emacs: Icomplete, Minibuffer Name Completion
• Emacs: icomplete vs ido mode 👎

• new page Emacs Version History

emac 28, am extremely IMPRESSED. Best upgrade, most user level features in past 10 years, and the “NEWS” file is now READABLE. eg emacs now has proper undo/redo. All packages trying to fix it in past 20 years are done for. Review/livestream in coming weeks.

• Xah Emacs Search 🔍

xah talk show 2022-03-26 write a search engine for my site. emacs lisp + JavaScript coding

• Emacs: Hippie Expand
• Emacs: Hippie Expand Setup

xah lee emacs packages on melpa stats xtodo need to get other stat to that page.

Major update. Lots new pages. some parts are still work in progress xtodo

• Emacs Init Setup

• Emacs Init: Standard Copy Cut Paste Keys
• Emacs Init: Type Overwrite Selection
• Emacs Init: Set Default File Encoding
• Emacs Init: Arrow Key for Screen Line or Logical Line
• Emacs: No Wrap Lines
• Emacs: Hard-Wrap Lines (fill-paragraph)

• Emacs Init: Auto Insert Closing Bracket (electric-pair-mode)
• Emacs: Delete Emacs Backup Files

minor updates.

• Best Keyboards for Emacs
• Xah Fly Keys Layout for Kinesis/Ergodox Keyboard

• updated Emacs Init: Mouse Wheel Config

Emacs: Xah Find Replace (xah-find.el) 📦
now much faster

3 new functions.

• xah-dired-rotate-img-180
• xah-dired-rotate-img-left
• xah-dired-rotate-img-right

Emacs: Xah Dired Mode (xah-dired.el) 📦
buy it.

update or new

• Emacs: Basic Key Shortcuts
• Emacs Principle, Command and Keys
• Emacs: Xah HTML Mode Tutorial

Emacs: Xah HTML Mode 📦
new video

emacs bug 1111, fixed after 13 years

emacs_bug_1111_describe_keys_key_notation.txt

• Emacs Bugs One Decade Delay

• Emacs: Xah CSS Mode 📦

misc updates

• Elisp: Overlay Highlighting
• Emacs: Indentation Commands
• Emacs Init: Tab, Indent
• Emacs: Show Whitespaces
• Emacs: Name Completion

Major rework on emacs lisp doc popup. Clear cache and reload to check. Shift+Ctrl+r in chrome. ⌥ option+⌘ command+e in safari.

major rewrite:

• Elisp: Read File
• Elisp: Write File

minor updates:

• Emacs: Major Mode
• Emacs: Minor Mode
• Emacs: Init File Tutorial
• Emacs Init: Save Cursor Position
• Emacs Init: Show Line Numbers

Elisp: Association List
more update.

Xah Talk Show 2022-01-22 emacs lisp coding narrow-to-region, sort-lines, hilight-unicode, emacs vs xemacs

Emacs: Convert File Line Ending 🚀
more efficient code

updates

• Emacs: Xah Fly Keys Mode Status Customization
• Set Font in Init File

Elisp: Get Text Block 🚀
improved code.

xah talk show 2022-01-20 emacs lisp coding plus tutorial, xah-add-space-after-comma

Emacs: Xah Fly Keys Customization Major update. Still working on it.

xah packages. Added lots features. Minor and major updates. Buy them.

• Emacs: Xah Lookup Web (xah-lookup.el) 📦
• Emacs: Xah Find Replace (xah-find.el) 📦
• Emacs: Xah CSS Mode 📦

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added download emacs for Android. thanks to Infu.

Emacs: Xah Fly Keys 📦 . Added neo2 layout to the svg diagram. Thanks to p1umps.