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Emacs

Emacs

Learn how to setup your favourite text editor, Emacs, as a super powerful and capable Scala IDE (integrated development environment) with the latest and most performant approach.

<2026-10-23 vr> Emacs finally folds to my liking - Emacs finally folds to my liking ... and understands what folds are in many languages and modes.. this really feels like absolute power and overview capability.

<2026-07-20 ma> Emacs Eglot for Scala and Kotlin (JVM) - Enjoy Emacs and its built-in language server (LSP) superpowers, for JVM languages. Let's walk through basic language setups, specialized workspace configuration handling, and dive deep into some advanced JSON-RPC and advice-based workarounds for Scala (Metals) and Kotlin that make development truly seamless from Emacs and liberate you from IntelliJ ☺️.

<2026-06-30 di> Hacking Freedom: Compiling GNU Emacs from Source - By compiling GNU Emacs directly from the upstream Savannah repositories, you unlock the absolute bleeding edge of the extensible, self-documenting operating system disguised as a text editor.

<2024-12-04 wo> YAML Schemas in Emacs with Eglot - Are you editing YAML files and would like to use JSON schemas for YAML in Emacs?

<2024-08-13 di> Emacs registers - a god-send for your day job - Ever had to work on very long files in projects you are not familiar with, and felt lost without an anchor point? Enter Emacs and its register system, which lets you "bookmark" locations in a file (buffer) and jump back to them, and much, much more!

<2023-04-28 vr> Emacs for absolute beginners - In this article, I'm going to give you exactly what you need to get started using Emacs and understand the basic concepts and key bindings of the editor.

<2023-04-26 wo> Emacs and Scala setup with Eglot