Tag Archives: Emacs

Emacs on OS X

Posted on 2015-05-19 by jcs

If your platform is OS X and you’re an Emacser, Bozhidar Batsov has a nice post on setting up Emacs. He shows you how to get Emacs (if you don’t compile it yourself), how to set the path or alias … Continue reading →

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Counting Words

Posted on 2015-05-18 by jcs

For years, I’ve used this bit of Elisp that I stole from DJCB at Emacs-Fu. The latest versions of Emacs now have this functionality built in so I thought I should move on. The new functionality is bound to the … Continue reading →

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Make Scroll Up and Scroll Down Symmetric

Posted on 2015-05-16 by jcs

A handy tip from Wilfred Hughes: Emacs tip of the day: (setq scroll-preserve-screen-position 'always) will ensure that M-v always undoes C-v, so you can go back exactly. — Wilfred Hughes (@_wilfredh) May 16, 2015

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Peep-dired

Posted on 2015-05-15 by jcs

Asok has a nice little utility called peep-dired that’s available from MELPA. It’s a Dired minor mode that displays the file at point in the dired buffer in another window. You don’t have to select the file or do anything … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Emacs

Posted on 2015-05-12 by jcs

Just yesterday, I wrote about Ben Maughan’s Emacs Tip Mailing List and remarked that you could sign up for the mailing list if you liked but that due to widespread interest he was going to publish them as a blog. … Continue reading →

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Cycling Through Spelling Correction

Posted on 2015-05-11 by jcs

The other day I wrote about Ben Maughan’s Emacs Tips mailing list and recommended that you take at look at the Web site that also collects the tips1. In case you didn’t take my advice, I want to share part … Continue reading →

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Ztree

Posted on 2015-05-08 by jcs

Alexey Veretennikov (fourier) has a nice project on Github. Ztree is a set of two Emacs utilities that deal with directories in a tree-based way. The first, ztree-dir provides a tree representation of a directory. Branches can be opened to … Continue reading →

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Org Bullets

Posted on 2015-05-07 by jcs

I’m pretty happy with the default bullets in Org-mode but you don’t have to settle. abo-abo points us to this package by Sabof that uses some nice UTF-8 symbols for the bullets. The package README has a screen shot of … Continue reading →

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Blogging with Emacs, Jekyll, and Github

Posted on 2015-05-06 by jcs

Obviously, Irreal is published with WordPress. Some folks complain about WordPress but I’m very happy with it. It’s provides a simple and easy to maintain blogging platform that, along with org2blog, allows me to concentrate on writing rather than continually … Continue reading →

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Pair Editing with Emacs

Posted on 2015-05-04 by jcs

It makes me shudder with horror but if you like the idea of pair editing, Emacs has got you covered. zk-phi has released togetherly that lets you share a buffer with one or more colleagues. It works by setting up … Continue reading →

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