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Todd Sundsted posted Jul 18, 2026
i was overdue for my annual (or maybe decennial) .emacs checkup and service.
i removed support for haskell and ocaml programming—i love haskell but i'm not writing it anymore. rip. i deleted packages that support tools i've replaced with other tools (e.g. ack → rg) or i just don't use (origami, counsel/ivy/swiper, etc.).
it looks like i need to migrate from a few packages to newer packages (smex → amx, restclient → verb, etc.). smex hasn't been maintained since ~2015 so maybe it is decennial...
Todd Sundsted posted Nov 21, 2025
emacs comes with dunnet. i've never played it. today i am going to play it.
Todd Sundsted posted Jun 9, 2025
hmm… ‘bout time for the decennial cleanup of my dot emacs file…
Todd Sundsted posted Jan 11, 2024
Todd Sundsted posted Jan 10, 2024
before emacs lisp package archives were a thing, i learned a lot about emacs and elisp because reading the code was a natural part of installing, configuring and using a package. i like the automation and ease of installation, but i feel like something intimate is lost...
Todd Sundsted posted Nov 30, 2023
i had to roll back to emacs v28.2 on osx (ventura). magit on v29.1-1 was super-slow and, generally, frames would unpredictably lock up and stop accepting input. it's not even obvious where i'd report this issue...
Todd Sundsted posted Nov 19, 2023
after all these years it still amazes me how often i fat-finger ^X^C and accidentally exit emacs...
Todd Sundsted posted Mar 31, 2022
Todd Sundsted posted Mar 24, 2022
i'm reading through the entire org-mode manual. i've used it for years—it's time to master it.
org-mode has excellent support for handling links to other documents, both local and remote. in addition to a rich vocabulary of link types, if you're in a document—for example, a source code file—and you want to insert a link to a definition in that document into an org document you are working on, you use org-store-link to create a link to that definition—the type of link created depends on the type of document in the current buffer. you insert the stored link into the org document with org-insert-link. this works for most common emacs buffers (org, email/news, etc.).
Todd Sundsted posted Mar 17, 2022
i have code in .emacs going back decades...