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Emacs Redux
Personal blog · emacsredux.com/blogprogramming
Emacs Redux is a personal blog at emacsredux.com about programming. Since 2013, 33 different Hacker News readers have linked it 44 times, most often “A new blog dedicated to Emacs”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (16) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Bozhidar Batsov's Emacs blog is linked for tips, release roundups such as Emacs 24.4 and 29.1, and the techniques he built into his Prelude configuration.
- Recommended for · 3 comments
- Called informative for learning Emacs, its new-feature posts useful, and its explanations of Prelude techniques 'very cool'.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 16 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- A new blog dedicated to Emacs3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-03-29
- A crazy productivity boost: Remap Return to Control2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-11-22
- /blog/2014/01/01/a-peek-at-emacs-24-dot-4-rectangular-selection/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-10-20
- Running Emacs with Systemd2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-16
- State of Emacs Survey2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-22
- Emacs 29.1 Released2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-30
What Hacker News says?
Protip, you can make emacs use mdfind with (setq locate-command "mdfind")[1] [1]: http://emacsredux.com/blog/2013/07/05/locate/ (setq locate-command "mdfind")
Comment linking /blog/2013/07/05/locate/
on “Unix Commands I Wish I’d Discovered Years Earlier”Submitted A new blog dedicated to Emacs as a story · 240 points
HN discussionThe rectangle highlighting issue has been fixed[0]. http://emacsredux.com/blog/2014/01/01/a-peek-at-emacs-24-dot...
Comment linking /blog/2014/01/01/a-peek-at-emacs-24-dot-4-rectangular-selection/
on “Emacs 24.4 released”Submitted Emacs Prelude 1.0 as a story · 199 points
HN discussionAn older link, but: http://emacsredux.com/blog/2014/01/01/a-peek-at-emacs-24-dot...
Comment linking /blog/2014/01/01/a-peek-at-emacs-24-dot-4-rectangular-selection/
on “Emacs 24.4 released”Submitted Working with Git Worktrees in Magit as a story · 147 points
HN discussionNo, real programmers use emacs: https://emacsredux.com/blog/2013/04/03/easter-eggs/#butterfl...
Comment linking /blog/2013/04/03/easter-eggs/
on “How the Dreamcast Copy Protection Was Defeated”Submitted A Peek at Emacs 24.4: Auto-indentation by Default as a story · 82 points
HN discussionAnd you shouldn't miss Bozhidar's blog on Emacs ( http://emacsredux.com/ ) where he explains a lot of the very cool techniques he included in Prelude.
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on “Start Using Emacs – A Thorough Guide for Beginners”Submitted Instant access to your shell init files as a story · 35 points
HN discussionWith some comments by Bozhidar Batsov ( https://github.com/bbatsov ) here: https://emacsredux.com/blog/2020/10/22/state-of-emacs-survey...
Comment linking /blog/2020/10/22/state-of-emacs-survey/
on “Emacs Survey”Submitted Forever Emacs as a story · 15 points
HN discussionIt is possible to use Emacs effectively with just M-, C- keybindings (20+ years experience). Super (windows key) is for desktop manipulation, so no loss on iPad. No idea what is hyper--you likely need to have 40+ years of experience to start with the space cadet keyboard https://emacsredux.com/blog/2022/06/01/the-space-cadet-keybo...
Comment linking /blog/2022/06/01/the-space-cadet-keyboard/
on “Emacs on an iPad”Submitted Emacs: Goodbye Setq, Hello Setopt as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI have found EmacsRedux informative for learning GNUemacs. The key for me was understanding that Emacs is command driven and that shortcuts are merely shortcuts to commands - i.e. M-x <command> invokes the <command> of which emacs has hundreds (+ lisp expressions). Unlike shortcuts, commands can be accessed with auto-complete. http://emacsredux.com/
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on “Emacs setup for Python development”Submitted Emacs 29.1 Released as a story · 5 points
HN discussionCame here to say this. I'm starting Emacs only after a reboot, who cares if it takes 3s or 30s to launch (mine around 5 or so.) Use emacsclient if you want to use it as $EDITOR. https://emacsredux.com/blog/2014/12/23/uptime/
Comment linking /blog/2014/12/23/uptime/
on “Advanced techniques for reducing Emacs startup time”Submitted Stealing from the Best Emacs Configs as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis blog has had a series of posts on some of the new features that I found useful: http://emacsredux.com/blog/categories/emacs24-dot-4/
Comment linking /blog/categories/emacs24-dot-4/
on “What’s New in Emacs 24.4”Submitted Replacing Dash.el with Built-In Emacs APIs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIn some of my programming environments, such as Emacs, I choose to prettify keywords to unicode characters such as 'function' (λ), 'lambda' (λ), 'forall' (∀) and others. It takes a bit getting used to, but it brings the focus where it needs to be: the code and data flow. The brain quickly adopts new pattern-matchable structures, so why bother with long keywords? [1] http://emacsredux.com/blog/2014/08/25/a-peek-at-em…
Comment linking /blog/2014/08/25/a-peek-at-emacs-24-dot-4-prettify-symbols-mode/
on “Rust sucks because”Submitted Running Emacs with Systemd as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI am not quite sure how this particular feature will look but Emacs can be already used as a SQL client. Here is a short demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D97vDu_BhwA Here is an introduction blog[1] and the related mode[2] [1] https://emacsredux.com/blog/2013/06/13/using-emacs-as-a-data... [2] https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/progm...
Comment linking /blog/2013/06/13/using-emacs-as-a-database-client
on “Emacs 29”Submitted Emacs: an easy-kill as a story · 3 points
HN discussionEmacs in systemd: https://emacsredux.com/blog/2020/07/16/running-emacs-with-sy...
Comment linking /blog/2020/07/16/running-emacs-with-systemd/
on “Savaged by Systemd: An Erotic Unix Encounter”Submitted Travel Back and Forward in Git History as a story · 3 points
HN discussionA much less thorough round-up of 29.1 was discussed here a little while ago¹, with many of great comments². ¹ https://emacsredux.com/blog/2023/07/30/emacs-29-1-released/ ² https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36929514
Comment linking /blog/2023/07/30/emacs-29-1-released/
on “Mastering Emacs: What's new in Emacs 29.1”Submitted A crazy productivity boost: Remap Return to Control as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNo personal experience with it (on Windows), but maybe running via WSL(2)? (E.g., https://emacsredux.com/blog/2021/12/19/using-emacs-on-window... )
Comment linking /blog/2021/12/19/using-emacs-on-windows-11-with-wsl2/
on “Use GNU Emacs”Submitted Creating Emacs Color Themes, Revisited as a story · 2 points
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