Tag Archives: Emacs

Searching for Words with eww

Posted on 2016-10-02 by jcs

Wilfed Hughes offers an excellent tip Emacs command of the day: eww-search-words, bound to M-s M-w. Do a web search for the text in the current region using the built-in browser. — Wilfred Hughes (@_wilfredh) October 1, 2016 You can … Continue reading →

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Elisp Tutorial Videos

Posted on 2016-10-01 by jcs

Daniel Gopar is working on a series of video tutorials for Elisp. It’s definitely for n00bs so if you want to understand the basics of Elisp, you might want to take a look. Right now there are 4 videos but … Continue reading →

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Org Babel and Applescript

Posted on 2016-09-30 by jcs

Grant Rettke over at Wisdom and Wonder points to an interesting project that integrates Org Babel and Applescript. If you’re a Mac user and sometimes work with Applescript (or even if you want to play around with it) you should … Continue reading →

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Reevaluating Local Variables

Posted on 2016-09-29 by jcs

An odd but very useful feature of Emacs is (file) local variables. This allows you to specify certain Emacs variables either on the first line of a file or at the end in a special Local Variables block. Typical uses … Continue reading →

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Tramp and cd

Posted on 2016-09-28 by jcs

I try to use ehsell as much as I can when I need to drop into the shell. That way, I stay in Emacs and still have the power of Emacs available. The other day in a post about something … Continue reading →

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Version 2 of Mastering Emacs is Out

Posted on 2016-09-26 by jcs

Just got my Mastering Emacs update. Mickey has put out version 2 to incorporate new material reflecting changes in Emacs 25.1. The upgrade is free to current owners; You should be getting an email from Mickey. If you don’t already … Continue reading →

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Kill This Buffer

Posted on 2016-09-24 by jcs

[Editorial Note: Sorry about the lousy formatting. Org2blog is misbehaving again so I had to paste the HTML into the WordPress editor.] Ben Maughan over at Pragmatic Emacs has a really nice tip. It’s one of those things that you … Continue reading →

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An Example of pcase-lambda

Posted on 2016-09-22 by jcs

Over at the Emacs reddit, instant_sunshine has an example of using pcase-lambda. It’s not used very often but can be useful if you have to write functions that need to look inside Lisp objects. The documentation for pcase-lambda is a … Continue reading →

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Emacs 25.1

Posted on 2016-09-18 by jcs

As you surely know by now, Emacs 25.1 is out and available for download at the usual places. Check the Emacs download page for a mirror near you. They also have pointers to some precompiled binaries if you prefer that. … Continue reading →

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Repeating a Command

Posted on 2016-09-17 by jcs

Zachary Kanfer has a nice post on how to repeat a command with a single keystroke. A familiar instance of this is the old-style keyboard macro execution. After defining the macro, you can execute it with 【Ctrl+x e】 and then … Continue reading →

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