Emacs Misc. Index

Non-Technical Essays on Emacs Lisp

• Why Nobody Uses Emacs Lisp for Text Processing (2017)

• Which Chapters of Elisp Manual to Read (2013)
• How to Learn Emacs Lisp?
• My Path to Emacs Lisp
• Should Beginner Programer Learn Emacs Lisp
• Author of Intro to Emacs Lisp Robert J Chassell Died
• Why emacs lisp haven't become a general purpose language?

Useful Tips

• Emacs calc sucks
• List of Emacs Starter Kits, year 2013
• Emacs Edit Exercise: puthash Unicode
• Emacs Quiz: Insert A to Z Vertically
• Emacs: Color Nested Brackets
• Emacs Init: Environment Variables
• Emacs: Power of Icicles
• Emacs Commandments: the SEVEN Commands You Must Know
• Emacs Opening Large File Slow

Emacs Version History

• Emacs Version History

emacs screen

• Xah Emacs Screen

• Emacs Screen, Dan Lentz
• Emacs Screen: Nick Alcock

Text Editing Tech Issues

• Text Editor Feature. Extend Selection by Semantic Unit (2006)
• Auto Format Lisp Code (2007)
• Emacs: Why I Don't Use paredit
• Emacs Flaw: Single Key to Delete Whole Line
• Emacs: Delete Word Without Copying to Clipboard/kill-ring
• Text Editor's Cursor Movement Behavior (emacs, vi, Notepad++) (2010)
• Why Emacs is Still so Useful Today

more stuff

• Emacs Overflowing Kitchen Sink Icon

• Emacs Fun: Download Zippy the Pinhead Yow File
• Microsoft Cites Xah Lee Website (2012)

Emacs Bugs Index

• Emacs Bugs. Index

unsorted

• Best Emacs Keyboard? Take n! (2012)

• Xah Lee on Mickey Petersen's Mastering Emacs (2016)

• Why Emacs Has Many Keys for Undo (2025)

• Emacs: Default Font is Still Courier New. 30 Years Old Font (2025)

• Emacs Dev, Alan Mackenzie, Resigns 2024-11

• Why You Need to Understand ASCII (2024)

• Emacs Lisp Coding Style

• Emacs Doc Phrase: “Which See”

• Stefan Monnier (and Chong Yidong), Emacs Maintainer, 2008 to 2015

• Dickmao Commercial emacs
• Protesilaos Stavrou in Emacs Community

• TECO Manual
• Emacs Lisp: Function Naming, String Equal

• Xah Fly Keys Major Mode Key Problem
• Emacs Magit Mode Problem
• Emacs Helm Doc Problem
• Elisp: (goto-char 1) vs (goto-char (point-min))
• Problem of Calling Windows cmd.exe in Emacs Lisp
• Emacs go-mode gofmt diff problem
• Origin of Line Wrap at 80 Chars (Punched Cards)
• Emacs Flaw: Problems of grep
• Syntax Coloring Compared: Emacs, Vim, Atom, Sublime, Visual Studio, WebStorm
• Programer Workflow Efficiency
• Emacs: avy ace-jump vs isearch
• ivy mode minibuffer history corruption bug
• Intro to Mindmap, Gantt Chart, Graphviz
• Emacs Abbrev for Most Used English Words?
• Sacha Chua's Emacs Chat
• Sacha Chua's Emacs Chat with Phil Hagelberg (aka Technomancy)
• TextMate Gone Open Source
• Emacs: Make Form Feed Character Obsolete

• Famous Emacs Users

On Emacs Keybinding

• Computer Keyboard Hand Pain, Year 2020 (Left Forearm Hurts)
• Programer Hand Pain. vim Escape Key Syndrome (2010)
• Emacs Repetitive Strain Injury, My Experience
• Voice Input for Programing 📺 (year 2013)

Keybinding Design

• emacs and vi: Science of Command Efficiency
• Emacs Keybinding Efficiency: Page Up/Down and Pigeon Hole Principle
• The Roadmap to Completely Replace Emacs Key System, Part 1 (2012)
• The Roadmap to Completely Replace Emacs Key System, Part 2 (2013)
• The Roadmap to Completely Replace Emacs Key System, Part 2.5 (2014)
• Emacs: menu e vs Tab Key
• Keybinding Science: Emacs C-u vs Prompt

misc

• Emacswiki.org New Site Design (2026-01-05)

• Emacs Key Notations Explained (/r, ^M, C-m, RET, <return>, M-, meta)
• Dogma of Swapping Control/Capslock
• on vi Keybinding vs Emacs Keybinding (2013)
• Emacs cua-mode Keybinding Problems
• Programer Workflow Efficiency
• Emacs: Display Key and Command in Real Time
• Emacs. Why I Stopped Using ergoemacs-mode (2014)
• Emacs Repetitive Strain Injury is Coming for You
• Emacs: Typing of the Dead
• emacs major mode keys not compatible as key sequence
• Typing Speed and Hand Motion Speed Study
• Emacs: comment-line vs comment-dwim