Tag Archives: Emacs

In his post on hippie expand, Mickey Petersen mentioned the abbrev command and its utility as a way of making on-the-fly corrections to common typos and misspellings. I really, really hate having my editor or any input device automatically make … Continue reading →

In a nice followup to yesterday’s post on Hippie Expand, deltille asks for clarification on the Emacs’ completion methods. His post was in response to Mickey’s article about hippie expand. Detille is a new Emacs user and is confused about … Continue reading →

Over at Mastering Emacs, Mickey has a nice post on one of Emacs’ hidden gems: hippie expand. The odd thing is that although it is the most capable expander built into Emacs, it does not have a default binding. As … Continue reading →

I’ve written about this before but it’s so useful and magic-like that it bears repeating. The TL;DR is that when you’re in eshell, you can simply cd to a directory on a remote machine. Once there you can pretty much … Continue reading →

Just a quickie today. Bhaskar Chowdhury has a short video (6 minutes, 54 seconds) that describes 4 vital Emacs shortcuts. Three of them are probably already in your repertoire: switch-to-buffer (Ctrl+x b) async-shell-command (Meta+&) shell-command (Meta+!) Most of you probably … Continue reading →

Torstein Johansen, who’s been using Emacs for 20 years, has a shocking confession: Although he learned about them, he’s never used keyboard macros. Part of the reason for that, he says, is that he uses multiple cursors instead. My first … Continue reading →

Good news for all Emacsers who have a copy of Mickey Petersen’s excellent Mastering Emacs: Mickey has updated the book to cover Emacs 28. You can read the “2022 Edition Update” section of the book at the previous link but … Continue reading →