Emacs text editor released new major 30.1 version a few days ago. For Ubuntu users who prefer the classic .deb package, here’s unofficial PPA updated for all current Ubuntu releases. Emacs 30.1 features Android port, improved touchscreen support, new trusted-content option, native JSON support, default app for ‘org-protocol’, ability to set toolbar to bottom, new […]
GNU Emacs text editor released new 30.1 version on Sunday with many new features. Emacs is finally ported to Android operating system. Though, it requires to be compiled on another computer with Android NDK, SDK and Java compiler. See the “INSTALL” file under java sub-folder of the source for details. The new release also improved […]
Emacs is a free and open-source cross-platform text editor. Learn some of the reasons why I use Emacs in Linux and for productivity tasks.
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Emacs is one of the aged text editor with ongoing development, providing rich and powerful features that can be more extended using plugins.
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GNU Emacs editor released new 29.3 as an emergency bug-fix release this Sunday. The new release intended to fix several security vulnerabilities described below: Arbitrary Lisp code is no longer evaluated as part of turning on Org mode. This is for security reasons, to avoid evaluating malicious Lisp code. New buffer-local variable ‘untrusted-content’. When this […]
Tutorial on the commonly used Emacs key bindings to get you up-to-speed using the Emacs text editor and perform the operations quickly along with examples.
Tutorial on highlighting the current line in Emacs, the steps to activate and customize it, and specifying what color to use as the background and foreground.
Guide on how to select all texts inside your buffer by marking the region and the operations on what to do with the selected region like copying, cutting, etc.
Comprehensive tutorial on the methods to reload the current file in Emacs using the revert method and creating a shortcut for implementing the “reload” command.
Tutorial on the common ways of closing the buffers in Emacs by closing the default buffer, closing the buffers interactively, and closing a specific buffer.
Simple guide on how to use Lisp in Emacs with different examples on the functionalities and features that you can use with Lisp to enhance your usage of Emacs.
Tutorial on how to use the Emacs themes and install other themes by editing the Emacs init file to utilize better themes that align with your preferred style.
How to use Org Mode in Emacs and the features that Emacs offers to manage and organize an information in different formats to utilize it in various contexts.
Friday saw the first new version in two-and-a-half years of GnuCOBOL, and on Sunday, a new version of the venerable Emacs was announced.
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GNU Emacs text editor released version 29.1 few days ago. Here’s how to install it in current Ubuntu releases. According to the release note. Emacs 29.1 features: Supports “pure GTK” (PGTK) build Uses XInput 2 on X for input events Uses tree-sitter parsers for several programming modes Includes LSP client called Eglot Includes the use-package […]
Emacs is a very extensible text editor, as one feature that you can add is RSS. Learn how to access RSS feeds in Emacs today.
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Gnus is a powerful USENET reader for Emacs. It allows you to use Emacs’ editing features to browse newsgroups. Learn how to use it today.
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Doom Emacs is an easy and approachable way to get started with Emacs. Learn how it works and how to install and configure it today.
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Nyxt is a fully hackable web browser – all its source code can be inspected, modified, and tweaked to your exact specifications.
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sed is a powerful and useful tool in Unix/Linux for editing the content (files) line by line, including inserts, appends, changes, and deletes. Furthermore, it supports regular expressions, so it can match complex patterns. Commonly it is used to find and replace the strings in files like configuration files, bash scripts, SQL files, etc. The […]
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