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Goodbye setq, hello setopt!
https://emacsredux.com/blog/2025/04/06/goodbye-setq-hello-setopt/
Published: April 6, 2025 16:14
For many years most Emacs users used setq to set the various configuration options of Emacs and the packages that they were using. This probably wasn’t the best option (read on), but it was the most popular way of doing things. Now, however, it’s finally…
Essential Flyspell
https://emacsredux.com/blog/2025/03/31/essential-flyspell/
Published: March 31, 2025 19:52
I’ve been a long time user of flyspell-mode and flyspell-prog-mode, but admittedly I keep forgetting some of it’s keybindings. And there aren’t that many of them to begin with! This article is my n-th attempt to help me memorize anything besides C-c $. So,…
Speed up Emacs Startup by Tweaking the GC Settings
https://emacsredux.com/blog/2025/03/28/speed-up-emacs-startup-by-tweaking-the-gc-settings/
Published: March 28, 2025 08:06
A well-known Emacs performance optimization advice is to boost the garbage collector threshold (so GC collections happen less frequently). That’s something I’ve had in my Emacs config for ages: ;; reduce the frequency of garbage collection by making it…
Relative Line Numbers
https://emacsredux.com/blog/2025/03/19/relative-line-numbers/
Published: March 19, 2025 11:49
Relative line numbers (relative to the current line) are super popular in the world of Vim, because there it’s super easy to move n lines up or down wiht j and k. In the world of Emacs most of us tend to just go some line using M-g g using a absolute line…
You have no idea how powerful isearch is!
https://emacsredux.com/blog/2025/03/18/you-have-no-idea-how-powerful-isearch-is/
Published: March 18, 2025 16:47
isearch is probably one of the most widely known Emacs commands. Every Emacs user knows that they can run it using C-s (to search forward) and C-r to search backwards. Everyone also knows they can keep pressing C-s and C-r to go over the list of matches in…