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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 →

Grant Rettke has an interesting take on abo-abo’s Hydra package. His idea is that you can use hydras for a sort of lightweight literate programming. Most Irreal readers are already aware of hydras’ utility as a way of gathering related … Continue reading →

Most of you know that I really, really love Emacs but it wouldn’t occur to me to describe it as “light weight.” For most of its life, a major complaint about Emacs was that it was so heavy weight. Who … Continue reading →

Mbork has another nice post on some of the lessor known corners of Emacs. This time it’s about highlighting words in a buffer. There are lots of ways of doing that, of course, but they have subtle differences that make … Continue reading →

Xah Lee has updated his Emacs Less-known Tips page. It lists tips that Emacs n00bs may not be familiar with. Even more experienced Emacers may learn something new. Well worth a look, especially if you’re a beginner.

I mostly use isearch-forward, 【Ctrl+s】, and isearch-backward, 【Ctrl+r】, to search for words or phrases in a buffer. Sometimes, though, it’s convenient to see all the matches at once. Emacs has a set of commands that make this easy. The easiest … Continue reading →

James Cherti has announced a new package, Compile Angel. The idea is to keep all your Elisp files compiled with both the byte compiler and the native compiler. It has modes to compile any outdated “binaries” when a modified Elisp … Continue reading →