Emacs on Post-Candide

Preventing spurious yas-snippet expanding

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

yasnippet-snippets short keys can expand unexpectedly when completing identifiers with separators. A single yas-buffer-local-condition check fixes it globally.

Reloading a package under dev with straight

Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

While developing an emacs package, I do that from within the straight/repos folder.

If the changes only concern one file, it’s easy to just eval-buffer to check things out.

If the changes impact several files and/or it includes non-elisp files that needs to be copied to the straight/build folder, it’s a pain in the neck: I need to eval-buffer each file and call straight-rebuild-package.

The following is a small function that will, interactively if you want, rebuild the package, handle the autoloads and eval-buffer the other files.

TIL: Update random feed in elfeed

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

You can update a single, even unregistered feed with elfeed

Make Backspace Work in emacs-eat

Sun, 25 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This post details my troubleshooting process for a specific issue I encountered while setting emacs-eat. For those unfamiliar, emacs-eat is a(nother) terminal emulator designed to run directly within Emacs. Even though it was functional for the most part after following the installation instructions, there was one major hurdle: the backspace key wasn’t working.

Now, I’m genuinely confused about terminal emulators and the machinery behind it, so take the following as just a hint of where to look. I have no explanations why the setup wasn’t correct in the first place and why my seemingly incomplete solution works.