GNU Emacs – Something better to do

Hack of the day: keep the Emacs server running in the active login session

Prereqs for this hack being useful to you: (1) you use GNU Emacs; (2) you keep a single Emacs running in your session and use emacsclient to open files for editing in it; (3) you have Linux computers that use systemd on which you keep multiple concurrent login sessions open; and (4) you want emacsclient… Read More »

Hack of the day: stop accidental text scaling from brushing trackpad in GNU Emacs on macOS

I’ve been using GNU Emacs as my primary text editor and IDE for more than 30 years, so I’m not about to stop. You can’t teach an old dog new tricks and all that. When I started my current job and had to start using a Mac for work instead of my preferred Linux, GNU… Read More »