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The June, 2026 Emacs Carnival is "Underapprecated Emacs Built-ins." There are about two million lines of code in the core Emacs repo. Send me your favorite hidden treasure. If you're unsure where to look, see some ideas in the post. https://rossabaker.com/blog/underappreciated-emacs-built-ins/ […]

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@archenoth.com

@ross i'm not sure how underappreciated this is, but i still find wdired mindblowingly useful! C-x C-q lets you toggle the readonly status of buffers, and that usually breaks things when modes don't expect it except in this fun case where dired just actually lets you edit the directory listing […]

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3/6/26, 2:37 am0 reposts1 like

Ross A. Baker

@rossabaker.com

3 June

@archenoth It feels dangerous, like my edit will be uninterpretable as a directory and trash everything. But it works, and it works well!

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@archenoth.com

3 June

@ross true! plus it doesn't actually persist anything until you save, so you can preview what stuff looks like before you apply it even before then :blobcatmorningtea: plus, like, it's cool to be able to sort a folder of stuff by creation date, and prefix it with 01-, 02-, etc... it feels cool […]

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