emacs – JFT

A browser in your Emacs (macOS)

Since it’s no big deal for Linux users to use xwidget-webkit browser inside Emacs, it’s something that Emacs users on macOS has dreamed about for a really long time. Now that it’s possible for us as well. You can just install the latest HEAD version of emacs with brew, with a note: The official emacsContinue reading “A browser in your Emacs (macOS)”

A minimal but useful mode-line

I’ve been using doom-modeline for a while, it was great but I still want it more simpler. So I rolled my own mode-line.

Use unicode symbol to display org-mode checkboxes

With the help of prettify-symbols-mode, you can make your Emacs displaying org-mode checkboxes as a real Unicode symbols, instead of a boring text.

Buffer-specific background color in Emacs

Give you Emacs a more fancy look by adding a buffer specific background color.

Load light or dark theme based on time of the day

I have to work in a dark room sometimes during the night, so I have the screen brightness set to nearly zero. And it’s a PITA to see what on the screen with a dark color scheme such as tomorrow-night. Time like this, the light scheme is way better, I find that solarized-light is one of the best.

Emacs from scratch

Spacemacs is the first Emacs version I used, so I’m kind of attached to the evil-mode and SPC mnemonic key binding. But I always have a feeling that something is not right, Spacemacs hides a lot of things under the hood, and it loads a lot of stuff that I do not need during theContinue reading “Emacs from scratch”