Charlie Holland

1. TLDR If you are an Emacs user with a keen eye, you will have noticed that in Emacs Lisp, code is data. After all, 'Lisp' is shorthand for 'List Processing'. One of Elisp's most beautiful features is the fortuitous blur between the thing that is process

1. TLDR Your Emacs is full of markup-free hyperlinks embedded in your text, but you're missing a way to utilize them. Think about a file path in a README, a URL in an email, a commit 55a1f0 in a git log, or a function call. All of these have a logical ref

1. About This month I'd like to host the Emacs Carnival! I've been an enthusiastic participant for a while now. I wrote entries for May, June, and July (that last one hosted by Andy over at Plain DrOps). Now it's my turn to hold the torch. Reading other p

1. TLDR tldr Two technologies have endowed every editor with IDE superpowers this past decade: tree-sitter, a generic incremental parser that gives your editor a live syntax tree of your code, and the Language Server Protocol (LSP), a generic client-serve

1. TLDR A key feature is missing from most Personal Knowledge Management Systems (PKMSs): define a concept by pressing a keybinding on a word, and from then on all occurrences of that word become live, actionable links everywhere. This capability would tr

1. TLDR Emacs can draw line-level indicators in the built-in fringe and margin, the thin gutters beside the buffer text. The fringe gives you a single monochrome mark per side, and the margin can technically hold more, but getting several independent sour

1. Two Keys emacs help Learning Emacs is not about scouring through documents and memorizing facts. Those who use Emacs fluently know that the real skill is knowing how to ask Emacs about Emacs. The answer to any question you might have about Emacs lives

1. TLDR tldr The folks who 'grok' Emacs aren't wizards. They don't learn Emacs, per se, but instead they learn the handful of built-in commands for asking Emacs about Emacs. Those same commands work on themselves, so once you know them you can teach yours

1. TLDR Rendering an Emacs status bar as an SVG image, like with my svg-line package (demo), really is several times heavier than the native text engine. The skeptics were right. But it doesn't matter in practice: even a fully-repainted 3000-pixel ultrawi

1. TLDR Emacs provides four useful status bars (mode-line, header-line, tab-bar, and tab-line), but each imposes different, inconsistent limits on multi-line layout, alignment, icons, and interactivity. svg-line (see code on GitHub) solves this by renderi