Category Archives: General

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 →

In my ELPA With Emacs 24 post, I documented some of the problems I was having getting ELPA to work with Emacs 24 and showed some Elisp to work around the problem. Fortunately, my readers are a lot smarter than … Continue reading →

DJCB, over at Emacs-Fu, takes note of the new line number command in Emacs 24 that Sivaram wrote about in Got Emacs? and offers up a few suggestions of his own. He shows a very nice trick for accomplishing the … Continue reading →

Many (many) years ago when I was a freshman at RPI, we called the weekly Physics mass lecture “The Magic Show” because the lectures were spectacular demonstrations that illustrated whatever principle we were studying that week. This week I had … Continue reading →

I just installed Emacs 24 and, as expected, everything went very well except for the package system, ELPA. I don’t have very many packages that I load with ELPA so at least the number of problems were limited. First, following … Continue reading →

Back in March, I blogged about installing ELPA in Emacs 23. At the time I pointed to a page by Xah Lee on how to do this. Now that Emacs 24 is out it’s worthwhile revisiting the Emacs package system. … Continue reading →