Last week, I wrote about cargo culting in a much more general context, so this week I’m going to come clean. The file that had me thinking about the topic was the worst case you’ve probably ever seen: ...

1- How do I change the mouse pointer shape? I read in the GNU Emacs Lisp Manual that there is a variable to change it to the shape that you like, <I>x-pointer</I>; I ...

;show more info in taskbar/icon than just "Emacs" (setq-default frame-title-format (list "Emacs: %65b %f")) (setq-default icon-title-format (list "%b")) ...

Last week, I wrote about cargo culting in a much more general context, so this week I’m going to come clean. The file that had me thinking about the topic was the worst case you’ve probably ever seen: ...

I got exposed to Emacs in the 1990’s when I used Unix mainframes and VT220 terminals for work. At the beginning, it was just my programmer’s editor and when I got used to it, I looked for ports to use ...