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Emacs Related Essays

Emacs Modernization

Text Editing

• Emergency vi (vi tutorial)
• A Text Editor Feature: Extend Selection by Semantic Unit
• A Simple Lisp Code Formatter
• Tabs vs Spaces in Source Code
• The Harm of hard-wrapping Lines
• Emacs: Single Command to Delete Whole Line
• The Operative Efficiency of Emacs's Deleting Text to kill-ring

Keyboarding

• How To Avoid The Emacs Pinky Problem
• Why You Should Not Swap Caps Lock With Control
• Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard 4000
• Emacs's Key Notations Explained (/r, ^M, C-m, RET, <return>, M-, meta)
• Emacs, Dvorak, C-x
• How To Create Your Own Keybinding In Mac OS X
• Celebrity Programers with RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury)
• Left Wrist side-to-side Motion Pain; vi Esc key Syndrome
• Emacs, RSI, My Experiences
• A Curious Look at GNU Emacs's 1000+ Default Keybinding

Keyboards, Layouts, Hotkeys, Macros, RSI

Lisp

Language Criticism

• Fundamental Problems of Lisp
• The Concepts and Confusions of Prefix, Infix, Postfix and Fully Nested Notations
• Lisp's List Problem
• Why Lisp Do Not Have A Generic Copy-List Function
• Programing Language: A Ruby Illustration of Lisp Problems
• Why You should Not Use The Jargon Lisp1 and Lisp2

Logo

• The Emacs Logo
• LISP Logo
• Qi Language Logo
• The Lambda Logo Tour
• Lisp Needs A Logo

Misc

• Text Processing: Emacs Lisp vs Perl
• Why Learn Lisp When There Are Perl And Python
• What is Your Favorite Lisp
• Why Emacs Is So Useful

• A Typing Game in Emacs
• Emacs nxml-mode Fontification Changes
• Difference between Emacs's “(setenv PATH …)” and “(setq exec-path …)”
• Using Emacs for Twitter

• Lispers and Wikipedia
• Emacs Undo ＆ Emacs Cult Problem
• Emacs vs Windows Notepad

Xah Lee

Emacs Modes by Xah Lee

• Xah Lee's Emacs Customization File
• My Experience of Emacs vs XEmacs
• My First Encounter And Impression Of Lisp
• What is Your Favorite Lisp
• Emacs Irc Channel Ban On Xah Lee