Collaborate Disseminate
The ways in which we interact with computers has changed dramatically over the decades. From flipping switches on the control panels of room-sized computers, to punching holes into cards, to …read more Continue reading On Vim, Modal Interfaces and the Way We Interact With Computers
An old joke is that Emacs is a text editor with an operating system included, given that its extensibility and customization often goes far beyond traditional text editors. Part of …read more Continue reading Build Your Own Bootable Emacs Environment
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 …read more Continue reading Fossil Files: My .Emacs
It is no secret that I have a few things permanently burned into my neurons: the 1802 instruction set, the commands for WordStar, and the commands for emacs. There was …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: The Browser Emacs Fusion
It is no secret that I have a few things permanently burned into my neurons: the 1802 instruction set, the commands for WordStar, and the commands for emacs. There was …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: The Browser Emacs Fusion
What’s the fastest way to master console stuff like screen or emacs? Force yourself to use it exclusively, of course. But maybe you’d be tempted to cheat with a desktop. …read more Continue reading Paper Pi Is an Ergonomic Cyberdeck Meant for Thumbs
If you grew up with Unix systems like we did, you’ll be sorry to hear the news: vi, the noble text editor that has served us so well these 40 years, is going away — from many GNU/Linux systems, anyway. As of this writing, GNU/Linux Mint, Debian, Ubuntu, and OpenSUSE …read more
When it comes to managing ingredients and baking at a professional bakery, we know that most people would turn to an SQL database and emacs. Really, what else do you need? Okay, so maybe there are a few who would think that emacs couldn’t help you with this, so, here’s …read more
In the secret Hackaday bunker, we have some emacs users, some vi users, and some people who don’t really care. However, even the staunchest of our emacs supporters had to do a double take at [Vreeze’s] project that creates a GameBoy emulator using the venerable text editor. You can see …read more
Continue reading The Strangest Gameboy Emulator We’ve Seen Yet
Security risk in extensible text editors enable hackers to abuse plugins and escalate privileges. Continue reading Researchers Show How Popular Text Editors Can Be Attacked Via Third-Party Plugins