Tag Archives: Emacs

Zamansky 57: Dired Subtree and Narrow

Posted on 2019-04-08 by jcs

Mike Zamansky’s been busy dealing with admissions for next year’s Freshmen and other professorial duties but he has found time to give us a new video in his Using Emacs Series. This one is about using dired-subtree and dired-narrow, two … Continue reading →

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Swiper-isearch

Posted on 2019-04-07 by jcs

Abo-abo has added a new function to the swiper suite that fixes a couple of problems with swiper. The new function, swiper-isearch, acts more like isearch. The first thing you’ll notice is that multiple matches on a single line are … Continue reading →

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The Magic of a Write-Enabled Dired

Posted on 2019-04-06 by jcs

Here’s a great tip from learn emacs on how to change a group of file names: Need to change alot of file names in a directory at once? Dired to the rescue! M-x dired C-x C-q (to toggle dired buffer/dir … Continue reading →

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Org Mode 9.2.3 Has Been Released

Posted on 2019-04-03 by jcs

Bastien writes that Org-mode 9.2.3 is out: #emacs #orgmode 9.2.3, a bugfix release, is out. Enjoy ! https://t.co/dK4uSFUjXb — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) April 2, 2019 It’s a bug fix release so if you’re having any issues with Org you should … Continue reading →

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Understanding the Emacs Font System

Posted on 2019-04-02 by jcs

I’ve always felt a little bad that I have a hard time understanding how to work with Emacs fonts. Even simple things like setting the default font seems harder than it should be. It turns out that it’s not (just) … Continue reading →

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OrgMode Tutorial Plans

Posted on 2019-04-01 by jcs

Rainer König is back, after 15 months, with news of some changes in his life and his plans for his video series. In the latest video, König explains that he’ll be changing jobs soon and is also considering starting his … Continue reading →

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Custom Highlighting

Posted on 2019-03-30 by jcs

Last month someone pointed to this Emacs Notes post from last year and I thought some of you might find it handy. As the post points out, syntax highlighting can be a wonderful thing but sometimes you have a weird … Continue reading →

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Benchmarking in Emacs

Posted on 2019-03-27 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has posted an instructive article on benchmarking Elisp code. He had a theory on the run time of alternative implementations for some code he’d written and rather than wave his arms, he did what we all tell … Continue reading →

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Taking Notes in LaTeX

Posted on 2019-03-24 by jcs

This is astounding. Gilles Castel uses LaTeX to take notes in his Math classes. These aren’t simple notes with a smattering of elementary math symbols; they’re notes for classes like Complex Variables and other advanced topics. Take a look at … Continue reading →

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Deleting Blank Lines

Posted on 2019-03-23 by jcs

The Learn Emacs Twitter feed has a handy tip for dealing with blank lines: Making & Deleting blank lines: If your point/cursor lies within several blank lines C-x C-o will delete all but one blank line, another C-x C-o will … Continue reading →

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