Author Archives: jcs

Sometimes you want to copy a set of files from Dired in Emacs. If you have one or two files you can simply mark and copy them but if there are many files it can take some time for the … Continue reading →

Mickey has a new post over at Mastering Emacs on John Wiegley’s excellent use-package package. For those who don’t know, use-package is a macro that organizes and simplifies package loading and configuration. It can also delay the loading of a … Continue reading →

Brian Zwahr uses ansi-term in Emacs for his shell work but found that there were a few things about it that he didn’t like. Being Emacs, those things were pretty easy to fix and he posted about his fixes. He … Continue reading →

Austin Walker recently gave a talk at the Boston Emacs Meetup on using John Wiegley’s ledger program. Happily, there’s a video of the talk so we can all enjoy it. Ledger is a command line program but, of course, there’s … Continue reading →

For some workflows, especially those centered around the terminal, it makes sense to run Emacs as a server so that you can use emacsclient to quickly pop up an Emacs frame. I mostly just have a GUI instance of Emacs … Continue reading →

Mbork has posted a sequel to his highlighting post that I wrote about before. This time he discusses iedit. Mbork says you can think of it as Hi Lock mode with the added capability of editing all the highlighted entries … Continue reading →