When I run Emacs in X, I have white text on a black background, which is the opposite of the default.<P>~/.Xdefaults has <P>Emacs.default.attributeBackground: black ...

Modern shells support command-line editing for efficient recall and correction of commands. Command-line editing is more efficient than using the shell's history mechanism. Shells like KornShell, Bash ...

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 a time when emacs was almost my ...

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 ...

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 ...

Well here we are again, at part two of the 'Getting Help from Linux' series. In this blog post I'll be talking about using Info to get help from Linux. In my previous post I spoke about how Info came ...