Tag Archives: Emacs

Courtesy of a post from the_cecep over at the Emacs subreddit, I just discovered a builtin gem I didn’t know about. The post is about the delete-pair function. The idea is that you have some text surrounded by a pair … Continue reading →

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about piping Eshell output to a buffer. It’s a cute trick but it only works in Eshell. It turns out you can do better. iLemming has a video on piping in and out … Continue reading →

It’s a lazy Sunday and there’s nothing much going on in the Internet to interest Irreal or its readers so I’m offering you this little nugget that popped up this morning. Oil.el is a tiny package that brings the functionality … Continue reading →

Álvaro Ramírez has a new video up. This one, Bending Emacs 4, demonstrates several ways of batch renaming files. The secret sauce in most of these methods is the ability of the Dired buffer to become writable and have the … Continue reading →

In the old days, World Clocks were a sort of curiosity. There wasn’t a lot of need for them because most folks communicated with distant friends and colleagues with snail mail and later, I suppose, with email. In any event … Continue reading →

It’s Sunday and nobody—especially me—feels like working so here’s a short interlude while we’re waiting for the new week to begin. The subject of today’s post falls in the broad category of what could be called “mobile Emacs”. Most of … Continue reading →

Over at the Emacs subredit, iinnssdd says he was looking for a guide to speed up Emacs but couldn’t find one. Therefore, he put together his own. This is more than the usual “how to make Emacs load faster” article, … Continue reading →

One of the nice things about Emacs is that when you find yourself performing the same set of steps repeatedly, it’s easy to capture those steps into an Emacs function or even a keyboard macro. If you’re like me, you’ll … Continue reading →