Tag Archives: Emacs

After my post on How To Really Quit, I scanned through the Emacs section of Brian Zwahr’s Dev and Such blog. He’s got a ton of good Emacs tips there (many from his previous Blog Emacs Journey, which he’s merged … Continue reading →

I came across a post by mulander over at My Opera about his journey to Emacs. I found it interesting because it closely paralleled my experience: a long time Vim user moves to Emacs to get Slime. When I did … Continue reading →

Brian Zwahr over at Dev and Such shares a very useful tip. Very often you’re in some buffer such as *HELP* and type 【q】 to quit the buffer. This, however, merely buries the buffer. Most often you want to get … Continue reading →

How did I miss this? Noufal Ibrahim is producing a series of videos on using Emacs. The plan calls for four sections: Basics Applicaations Programming Elisp So far, he finished Section 1 with a total of 10 videos. To give … Continue reading →

DJCB over at EMACS-FU is announcing the release of Version 0.9.9 of mu4e, his Emacs-based email client. It looks good enough that I am tempted to give up the native Mac email client1. It has dynamic folders that will move … Continue reading →

Alex Schroeder has an interesting post on editing a column of numbers. The problem is that given some text such as |[[…]] | 1 | 6563| 3796| |[[…]] | — | |[[…]] | 1/3 | 2315| 1259| |[[…]] | — … Continue reading →

Here’s a great Emacs 24 tip from Xah Lee’s Google+ ErgoEmacs circle. If you’re in an Emacs occur buffer you can call 【Meta+x】 occur-edit-mode and then make changes to the occur buffer that will be reflected in the original file. … Continue reading →

Xah Lee has a post recommending wgrep, an Emacs extension that allows you to edit the results of grep and have the results reflected in the original file(s). This is good stuff. Although he didn’t write wgrep, Magnar Sveen demonstrates … Continue reading →