Tag Archives: Emacs

Tiny

Posted on 2015-07-19 by jcs

Eric James Michael Ritz has an excellent post on another of abo-abo’s great packages.

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Associating ielm with a Buffer

Posted on 2015-07-17 by jcs

Another handy tip from Wilfred Hughes: Today's hidden Emacs gem: pressing C-c C-b in an ielm buffer lets you associate it with a buffer, so you can inspect buffer-local variables. — Wilfred Hughes (@_wilfredh) June 7, 2015

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The Emacs C-x 4 Bindings

Posted on 2015-07-16 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has a very nice review of the【Ctrl+x 4】key bindings. Most of us learned—or at least read about—those when we started with Emacs but probably forgot about them because they were too esoteric for us then. That’s where … Continue reading →

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Magit 2.1.0 Summary

Posted on 2015-07-15 by jcs

Over at LWN.net, Nathan Willis has a nice summary of the Magit 2.1.0 features. Obviously he doesn’t cover all the features or even all the new features but it’s worth reading for getting an idea what’s in the latest release. … Continue reading →

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Basic Org Tutorial

Posted on 2015-07-14 by jcs

Over at the Worg site, David O’Toole has a nice tutorial on the basics of Org mode. It covers only the outlining and TODO features but there’s still some meat there for the more experienced Org user. For example, I … Continue reading →

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Seven Emacs Settings

Posted on 2015-07-13 by jcs

Timothy Pratley lists Seven specialty Emacs settings with big payoffs. These suggestions are “special” in that they aren’t basic settings that every new Emacs user gets around to implementing. Not everyone will want to use all of them. For example, … Continue reading →

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New Hydra Functionality

Posted on 2015-07-10 by jcs

I haven’t written about abo-abo’s excellent hydra package for a while but he’s continued to make significant enhancements to it. The latest is the ability to temporarily suspend a hydra and even push it onto a stack while you invoke … Continue reading →

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Marking Up Quoted Org Strings

Posted on 2015-07-08 by jcs

Artur Malabarba has a nice tip on how to markup strings in Org mode that begin with ” or ‘. I should have implemented it for this post.

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Elisp/Emacs Examples

Posted on 2015-07-08 by jcs

Caio Rordrigues has an excellent resource for beginning/intermediate Elisp programmers that also lists some of the common Emacs customizations that many Emacs users end up making. For example, it tells you how to turn off requiring a “yes” or “no” … Continue reading →

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Mastering Emacs in Emacs

Posted on 2015-07-06 by jcs

Virtually every Emacs geek knows about and has probably purchased Mickey’s Mastering Emacs. Álvaro Ramírez wanted a bit more: he wanted to be able to search it from Emacs. That turns out to be surprisingly easy. Just download the epub … Continue reading →

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