Last week, I wrote about cargo culting in a much more general context, so this week I’m going to come clean. The file that had me thinking about the topic was the worst case you’ve probably ever seen: ...

This article is a whirlwind introduction to Emacs that assumes you have Emacs installed and running (easy enough on most Linux distributions). It also assumes that you have used Emacs' built-in ...

Customizing Emacs is important to get the most out of it. You can change the way it operates to reflect your way of doing things, which in turn makes you more efficient. Just as custom-built boots fit ...

How do I load Emacs with a batch file in Win2k and WinXP so that the HOME variable is change to "..\HOME"? This way Emacs will look for the .emacs file somewhere other than the norm.<BR>I've tried the ...

1- How do I change the mouse pointer shape? I read in the GNU Emacs Lisp Manual that there is a variable to change it to the shape that you like, <I>x-pointer</I>; I did the "M-x apropos thing" but I ...

It looks like Al was right, we should all be using Emacs. On the 4th of June, [Armin Razmjou] announced a flaw in Vim that allowed a malicious text file to trigger arbitrary code execution. It’s not ...

When you’re writing up a long document, or even in the middle of a simple one, it’s good to be able to move around and edit in the text without taking your hands off the keyboard. All the little ...