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Emacs Redux

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Emacs Redux is a personal blog at emacsredux.com about programming. Since 2013, 33 different Hacker News readers have linked it 44 times, most often “A new blog dedicated to Emacs”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-02, and you can follow it by feed.

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33HN people?
2013–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 11 in 2020

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Most-linked posts?

  1. A new blog dedicated to Emacs
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-03-29
  2. Running Emacs with Systemd
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-16
  3. State of Emacs Survey
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-22
  4. Emacs 29.1 Released
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-30
  5. A crazy productivity boost: Remap Return to Control
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-11-22
  6. /blog/2014/01/01/a-peek-at-emacs-24-dot-4-rectangular-selection/
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-10-20

What Hacker News says?

  1. PuercoPop · 2013-09-10
    Protip, you can make emacs use mdfind with (setq locate-command "mdfind")[1] [1]: http://emacsredux.com/blog/2013/07/05/locate/ (setq locate-command "mdfind")

    Comment linking /blog/2013/07/05/locate/

    on “Unix Commands I Wish I’d Discovered Years Earlier”
  2. bozhidar · 2013-03-29

    Submitted A new blog dedicated to Emacs as a story · 240 points

    HN discussion
  3. namarkiv · 2014-10-21
    The rectangle highlighting issue has been fixed[0]. http://emacsredux.com/blog/2014/01/01/a-peek-at-emacs-24-dot...

    Comment linking /blog/2014/01/01/a-peek-at-emacs-24-dot-4-rectangular-selection/

    on “Emacs 24.4 released”
  4. tosh · 2020-09-15

    Submitted Emacs Prelude 1.0 as a story · 199 points

    HN discussion
  5. stronglikedan · 2014-10-20
    An older link, but: http://emacsredux.com/blog/2014/01/01/a-peek-at-emacs-24-dot...

    Comment linking /blog/2014/01/01/a-peek-at-emacs-24-dot-4-rectangular-selection/

    on “Emacs 24.4 released”
  6. srijan4 · 2026-09-08

    Submitted Working with Git Worktrees in Magit as a story · 147 points

    HN discussion
  7. wtetzner · 2018-12-11
    No, real programmers use emacs: https://emacsredux.com/blog/2013/04/03/easter-eggs/#butterfl...

    Comment linking /blog/2013/04/03/easter-eggs/

    on “How the Dreamcast Copy Protection Was Defeated”
  8. mjn · 2014-01-19

    Submitted A Peek at Emacs 24.4: Auto-indentation by Default as a story · 82 points

    HN discussion
  9. babarock · 2013-09-03
    And you shouldn't miss Bozhidar's blog on Emacs ( http://emacsredux.com/ ) where he explains a lot of the very cool techniques he included in Prelude.

    Comment linking /

    on “Start Using Emacs – A Thorough Guide for Beginners”
  10. todsacerdoti · 2020-07-18

    Submitted Instant access to your shell init files as a story · 35 points

    HN discussion
  11. bzg · 2020-10-22
    With some comments by Bozhidar Batsov ( https://github.com/bbatsov ) here: https://emacsredux.com/blog/2020/10/22/state-of-emacs-survey...

    Comment linking /blog/2020/10/22/state-of-emacs-survey/

    on “Emacs Survey”
  12. michaelsbradley · 2022-07-06

    Submitted Forever Emacs as a story · 15 points

    HN discussion
  13. d0mine · 2022-11-26
    It is possible to use Emacs effectively with just M-, C- keybindings (20+ years experience). Super (windows key) is for desktop manipulation, so no loss on iPad. No idea what is hyper--you likely need to have 40+ years of experience to start with the space cadet keyboard https://emacsredux.com/blog/2022/06/01/the-space-cadet-keybo...

    Comment linking /blog/2022/06/01/the-space-cadet-keyboard/

    on “Emacs on an iPad”
  14. signa11 · 2025-04-07

    Submitted Emacs: Goodbye Setq, Hello Setopt as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  15. brudgers · 2013-04-24
    I have found EmacsRedux informative for learning GNUemacs. The key for me was understanding that Emacs is command driven and that shortcuts are merely shortcuts to commands - i.e. M-x <command> invokes the <command> of which emacs has hundreds (+ lisp expressions). Unlike shortcuts, commands can be accessed with auto-complete. http://emacsredux.com/

    Comment linking /

    on “Emacs setup for Python development”
  16. pimeys · 2023-07-30

    Submitted Emacs 29.1 Released as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  17. julian37 · 2022-05-16
    Came here to say this. I'm starting Emacs only after a reboot, who cares if it takes 3s or 30s to launch (mine around 5 or so.) Use emacsclient if you want to use it as $EDITOR. https://emacsredux.com/blog/2014/12/23/uptime/

    Comment linking /blog/2014/12/23/uptime/

    on “Advanced techniques for reducing Emacs startup time”
  18. signa11 · 2026-04-07

    Submitted Stealing from the Best Emacs Configs as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  19. _delirium · 2014-10-15
    This blog has had a series of posts on some of the new features that I found useful: http://emacsredux.com/blog/categories/emacs24-dot-4/

    Comment linking /blog/categories/emacs24-dot-4/

    on “What’s New in Emacs 24.4”
  20. raid2000 · 2024-02-22

    Submitted Replacing Dash.el with Built-In Emacs APIs as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  21. edejong · 2017-01-23
    In some of my programming environments, such as Emacs, I choose to prettify keywords to unicode characters such as 'function' (λ), 'lambda' (λ), 'forall' (∀) and others. It takes a bit getting used to, but it brings the focus where it needs to be: the code and data flow. The brain quickly adopts new pattern-matchable structures, so why bother with long keywords? [1] http://emacsredux.com/blog/2014/08/25/a-peek-at-em…

    Comment linking /blog/2014/08/25/a-peek-at-emacs-24-dot-4-prettify-symbols-mode/

    on “Rust sucks because”
  22. Jtsummers · 2020-07-16

    Submitted Running Emacs with Systemd as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  23. geospeck · 2022-11-29
    I am not quite sure how this particular feature will look but Emacs can be already used as a SQL client. Here is a short demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D97vDu_BhwA Here is an introduction blog[1] and the related mode[2] [1] https://emacsredux.com/blog/2013/06/13/using-emacs-as-a-data... [2] https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/progm...

    Comment linking /blog/2013/06/13/using-emacs-as-a-database-client

    on “Emacs 29”
  24. tosh · 2018-11-09

    Submitted Emacs: an easy-kill as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  25. fidelramos · 2020-07-21
    Emacs in systemd: https://emacsredux.com/blog/2020/07/16/running-emacs-with-sy...

    Comment linking /blog/2020/07/16/running-emacs-with-systemd/

    on “Savaged by Systemd: An Erotic Unix Encounter”
  26. pmoriarty · 2014-11-23

    Submitted Travel Back and Forward in Git History as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  27. JNRowe · 2023-09-08
    A much less thorough round-up of 29.1 was discussed here a little while ago¹, with many of great comments². ¹ https://emacsredux.com/blog/2023/07/30/emacs-29-1-released/ ² https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36929514

    Comment linking /blog/2023/07/30/emacs-29-1-released/

    on “Mastering Emacs: What's new in Emacs 29.1”
  28. lelf · 2013-11-22

    Submitted A crazy productivity boost: Remap Return to Control as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  29. _emacsomancer_ · 2023-03-03
    No personal experience with it (on Windows), but maybe running via WSL(2)? (E.g., https://emacsredux.com/blog/2021/12/19/using-emacs-on-window... )

    Comment linking /blog/2021/12/19/using-emacs-on-windows-11-with-wsl2/

    on “Use GNU Emacs”
  30. signa11 · 2026-09-03

    Submitted Creating Emacs Color Themes, Revisited as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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