Xah Emacs Blog Archive 2026-01

• Evil mode vs ErgoEmacs mode, which came first (emacs keybinding history) (2026)

• emacs init: Set default font
• emacs init: Set Default Window (frame) Size

• emacs init: Sample Init

• emacs init: Icomplete Mode
• Emacs: icomplete mode (name completion in minibuffer)
• Emacs: fido and fido vertical mode (Minibuffer Name Completion)

• GNU Emacs Logo
• Xah Emacs Tutorial

• Elisp: Keyword Symbol (Colon Prefix)

• Elisp: JSON
• 🆕 Elisp: JSON. Export

• Elisp: Association List (alist)
• Elisp: Difference Between Association List vs List of Pairs

• Xah Talk Show 2026-02-27 Ep770. emacs lisp coding, uuid, atom webfeed

• Emacs: Insert Random UUID 📜

• Elisp: Print Date Time

• Emacs init: Move Cursor by camelCase, snake_case (subword-mode)

• emacs init: Line Height
• Emacs: Toggle Line Spacing Command 📜

• emacs init: arrow keys move by visual line, logical line

• Xah Talk Show 2026-02-17 Ep762. emacs lisp coding, command to fix youtube description, crimes of recursive acronym

• Xah Talk Show 2026-02-21 Ep765. emacs lisp coding. Command to delete emacs backup

• Elisp: join strings, code points to string

• Elisp: Function Keyword Parameters (Named Parameters)

• Elisp: Sequence. some, every (conditional exit)

• Elisp: Hash Table

• Xah Fly Keys News

updated.

• Elisp: Character Type

• Xah Talk Show 2026-02-06 Ep758 JavaScript. Array Sort, Peter Norvig, is Python Acceptable Lisp

• Xah Talk Show 2026-02-02 Ep755 emacs lisp write a find text command, but only if occur inside given tags

• Xah Talk Show 2026-01-21 Ep748 emacs lisp, write command to eval selection, fsharp, JavaScript.

• Famous Emacs Users

minor updates

• Elisp: Move Cursor
• Elisp: Search Text Functions
• Elisp: skip-chars-forward vs re-search-forward
• Elisp: Get Line Begin/End Position, or Move To

• Elisp: Syntax Table
• Elisp: Show Syntax Table
• Elisp: Show Char's Syntax

• Emacs: Insert Unicode Character

• Emacs Lisp Doc String Curly Quote Controversy (2015)

• emacs init: Whitespace Mode
• Emacs: Show Whitespaces

• Xah Talk Show 2026-01-07 Ep739 emacs lisp, write a lookup web command

• Emacs: Command to Lookup Doc on Web 📜

• Emacs Keys: Super Hyper
• Emacs on Windows: set Meta Super Hyper Keys

• Emacs: Toggle Letter Case 📜

updates

• Xah Emacs Commands

• Elisp: Get Buffer String

• Emacs and Elisp Video Tutorial

misc updates

• Emacs: Convert Hexadecimal Decimal
• Emacs: Command to Convert Hexadecimal Decimal 📜

• Elisp: Convert Hexadecimal to Decimal
• Elisp: Transpose Matrix 📜

• Elisp: Define Command

• Elisp: thread-first, thread-last (Function Chain, Pipe)

• Xah Fly Keys Testimonial