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How I Configured Doom Emacs as an Email Client

I recently spent time configuring Doom Emacs to be my email client. Let's go over my configuration and talk through some pain points.

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12 Emacs Keybindings Worth Learning

Learning a few Emacs Keybindings can make you more effective in a variety of places, even if you don't use Emacs as your editor. The most basic are shortcuts that let you move your

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Improving Command Line Productivity with GNU Readline

My favorite Readline features for improving my workflow on the command line—keyboard shortcuts, long commands, reverse search, and persisting options.

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Three Awesome Spacemacs Features

I was initially hooked by the nearly flawless Vim emulation. But then I fell in love with the pre-defined mnemonic shortcuts and amazing packages.

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Clojure Development in Spacemacs

Spacemacs is an awesome editor, and it's excellent for Clojure. Here I’ll describe the installation and setup process and point out a few useful tools.

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An Introduction to Spacemacs

If you’re looking for a good configurable text editor, give Spacemacs a try. Here's an overview of the basics you'll need to get started.

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Take Your Emacs to the Next Level by Writing Custom Packages

How to write an Emacs package with Emacs Lisp, then publish it to MELPA, using the example of a Mocha test runner.

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Customizing IntelliJ for Emacs Compatibility

IntelliJ out of the box isn't very comfortable for an Emacs user. It gets much better with some keymap tweaks and LivePlugin customizations.

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My Favorite Emacs Add-Ons

Some of the best Emacs add-ons, and how I use them in my daily workflow.

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Emacs or Vim? Get the Best of Both with Evil

Trying to decide on Emacs or Vim? I got the best of both worlds by porting my company's Vim config into Emacs using Evil.

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Vi Editing Mode for Bash

Fortunately, you can change the command line editing mode used by Bash. The default is emacs-mode, but you can easily change it to vi-mode.