Author Archives: jcs

Xah Lee has a nice updated post on working with rectangles and some other loosely related matters. Every time I see these commands I think how useful they are and then promptly forget about them. I’m going to make an … Continue reading →

I’m probably the last Emacs user to discover this but here’s a nifty trick that I learned today while trawling through some of Magnar Sveen’s .emacs.d files. If you hold down the shift key when moving the point, the region … Continue reading →

Xah Lee asks what’s the best way to jump to another position in a buffer and then return to the original point? Emacs users know a lot of ways of doing this. We can, for example, use 【Ctrl+s】 to move … Continue reading →

This is another note to myself. Recently I was examining the internal structure of the decimal expansion of a number. In order to do this, I put the decimal representation of the number in a buffer and did a query-replace-regexp … Continue reading →

I was reading some of the old posts from the excellent emacs-fu when I came across this post describing how to access root-owned files as a regular user. It was a nice post and cleared up an arcane piece of … Continue reading →