Revamping my blog with #BlogMore has got me writing a bit more again, which in turn made me want to speed things up a touch while writing in #Emacs -- so I wrote some helper code: https://blog.davep.org/2026/03/19/some-blogmore-elisp.html

#programming #lisp #elisp

I've been using Emacs since 2014, but never learned Elisp. Last week on my holiday, I started reading the Intro to Elisp.

But does it make sense to learn Elisp in 2026 when everyone is hyping about AI? Is this investment a wasted effort? I don't think so.

AI is overhyped for sure. Emacs, instead, has been around for decades. As @bbatsov
puts it (https://batsov.com/articles/2026/03/09/emacs-and-vim-in-the-age-of-ai/): "And Emacs? Emacs just keeps absorbing whatever the world throws at it. It always has."

#emacs #elisp

"For those who haven't seen it before, Emacs Solo is my daily-driver Emacs configuration with one strict rule: no external packages." by Rahul M. Juliato

https://www.rahuljuliato.com/posts/emacs-solo-two-years

#emacs #elisp #lisp

Blame this on @dougmerritt , @mousebot

Tootchaining utility that breaks at and trims whitespace:

https://codeberg.org/martianh/mastodon.el/issues/340#issuecomment-11390971

which as DM requested is incomprehensible cl-search .. :end2 .. :test-not .. :from-end

The version that does not attempt to play god with whitespace:

https://codeberg.org/martianh/mastodon.el/issues/340#issuecomment-11388562

Maybe you could patch it into #mastodonel.
#mastodon #programming #emacs #elisp #lisp

#emacs #elisp Why does this still display scratch? I asked LLM, but their answers weren't enlightening to me.

(let ((display-buffer-overriding-action '(display-buffer-no-window)))
(display-buffer "*scratch*"))

Not going to lie, the more I learn about #elisp, the more I like #emacs as well, which has been for a while my "almost-everything" application already ^^ - and I'm not even a #developer / #hacker!

I've just managed to write my first functions to toggle the background of the wonderful #Seoul256 theme (https://github.com/anandpiyer/seoul256-emacs), so no more manual setq and load-theme for me!