Tag Archives: Emacs

I’ve been rewatching some of Tim Visher’s VimGolf for Emacs videos (where are you Timmy?) and one of the things that struck me the second time through was his demonstration of Emacs bookmarks. I remembered my old post on opening … Continue reading →

Vivek Haldar has an interesting post in which he asks, essentially, what we need in an editor. He remarks that most people seem to want an editor that “looks good” and has certain performance and feature aspects that no one … Continue reading →

Nic Ferrier’s Elnode project is a great example of the power that Emacs and Emacs Lisp can deliver. Its almost unbelievable that you can run a Web server inside Emacs, but that’s what Elnode does. Once again we see in … Continue reading →

The other day I needed to change all occurrences of a certain Unicode character with another in a large file. No problem, I thought, I’ll just fire off a query-replace and be done. Of course, now I had to enter … Continue reading →

Read any article on optimizing your workflow with Emacs and odds are the first recommendation is to remap 【caps lock】 to 【Ctrl】. For as long as I can remember, the first thing I’ve done when setting up a new machine … Continue reading →

I got some really great comments to my Setting An Emacs Per-System Height post. If you are interested in automatically sizing your Emacs frames you should definitely take a look at them. Not all the suggestions are OS X specific … Continue reading →

One of the minor annoyances of Emacs on the Mac is that it’s easy to inadvertently scroll an Emacs window even if Emacs doesn’t have focus. Usually this happens when I’m working in a browser or in Reeder and I … Continue reading →

Every time I start Emacs I have to adjust the frame size. That’s because my two main systems are a 15 inch MacBook Pro and a 27 inch iMac. In both cases I want the width to be 80 cols … Continue reading →