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@ross ANTINEWS

Love the responses, and I'm happily including them all, but this is traditionally a blog carnival. Don't be shy about knocking the dust off your blog or starting a new one!

Reminder that the June Emacs Carnival on "Underapprecated Emacs Built-ins" is winding down. I'll accept submissions through June Anywhere on Earth. And since it's for fun and education, probably even after that, but get them in! Wrap-up coming tomorrow.

The June Emacs Carnival is complete! 22 entries and a brief recap. https://rossabaker.com/blog/underappreciated-emacs-built-ins/ It was a hectic month personally, with submissions across multiple ingresses. If I missed yours, nudge me again! On to July, where @SpaceCadet hosts us on […]

@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 […]

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