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Emacs Modernization

This page is a index to essays that are related to improving emacs, from my personal opinion.

Introduction

The Modernization of Emacs (Simple Changes Emacs Should Adopt)

Specific Suggestions

User Interface Related

• Scratch Buffer
• M-‹key› Notation vs Alt+‹key› Notation
• Menu Usability Problem
• Mode Line Modernization Suggestions
• Emacs cua-mode Problems
• Emacs Form Feed (^L) Display Suggestion and Tips

Editing Commands Usability Issues

• Usability Problems With Letter-Case Commands
• Suggestions on mark-word Command
• Emacs Incremental Search Suggestions
• Suggestions on Line-Cutting Commands
• Emacs: Single Command to Delete Whole Line

Major Mode Related

• Spell Checker Problems
• Adopt HTML To Replace Textinfo
• Support HTML Mail
• Problems of “man” Command
• Emacs Lisp Mode Syntax Coloring Problem
• Emacs Ahk Mode Problems

• Emacs's HTML Mode Sucks
• A Exhibition Of Tech Geekers Incompetence: Emacs whitespace-mode

• Emacs Does Not Support Viewing Images Files In Windows

Emacs Documentation Problems

Emacs Manual Outdated

• Problems of Emacs's Manual
• Problems Emacs's Manual; Examples
• Emacs Idolization: Have You Read the Emacs Manual From Cover to Cover?

Other

• Suggestions on Emacs's Inline Doc
• Usability Problems Of Emacs's Mode Documentation
• Emacswiki Problems
• Texinfo Problems

• A Record of Frustration in IT Industry: Disappearing FSF URLs
• A Emacs Frustration (blogger package)
• Emacs Manual Node Persistency Issues

Misc

• Emacs Suggestion: dired-do-query-replace-regex Replace ALL (fixed in emacs 23.1)
• Problems of Emacs Supporting Obsolete Systems
• Emacs Lisp Suggestion: Function to Copy/Delete a Directory Recursively (fixed in emacs 23.2)
• Keyboard Shortcut Notation
• Thoughts On Common And Scheme Lisp Based Emacs
• vi vs Emacs; But What About Market Research?

• GUI Makes People Dumb?

GNU Emacs Dev Inefficiency

• GNU Emacs Development Inefficiency
• Emacs Dev Inefficiency and Emacs Web 2.0?
• “Free” Software Morality, Richard Stallman, Paperwork Bureaucracy