Author Archives: jcs

Emacs’ regular expressions are notoriously tricky. They aren’t Perl Regular Expression compatible and the escaping rules are not always what you’d expect if you’re used to Unix regular expressions. Most of us, therefore, have experienced wasted time and frustration trying … Continue reading →

Xah Lee has added another page to his excellent series on Emacs Lisp. This time it’s about printing in Emacs Lisp. Most of us who have written any elisp are familiar with the message function, which prints a message to … Continue reading →

Bozhidar Batsov over at (think) recently loaded the current development version of Emacs 24 and gives us a peek at its features. The post is a very nice look at what’s coming in the next version of Emacs and well … Continue reading →

Commenting on my post about Emacs and tar fles, Phil remarks that he likes the way Emacs keeps its source code gzipped and decompresses a file transparently when you open it. But he was unhappy that he couldn’t use 【Meta+x】 … Continue reading →

Almost evry Emacs user is familiar with 【Meta+<】 and 【Meta+>】, the commands to move to the beginning and end of the current buffer. Today while browsing in Aaron Hawley’s excellent Emacs Reference Sheet, which I’ve written about before, I discovered … Continue reading →

I’ve been using Emacs for some time but am still regularly amazed at how it just does the right thing and in the expected way. Emacs has a well deserved reputation of having a steep learning curve and, indeed, like … Continue reading →