Tag Archives: Emacs

I’ve written about ELPA from the user’s viewpoint a couple of times. If you’re an Elisp developer and want to get your project into ELPA or Marmalade, Nic Ferrier has a nice post that details the steps. This is a … Continue reading →

Last month, I wrote about how I keep my two main machines in sync using git and how, after doing a git pull, I use a bit of Elisp to automate the reverting of my open buffers. After automating the … Continue reading →

Back in January I wrote about Magnar Sveen’s expand-region package that he described in Emacs Rocks #9. I recently loaded the code with ELPA and have been using it for my day-to-day work. I really like this package. It’s extraordinary … Continue reading →

Xah Lee has a nice updated post on working with rectangles and some other loosely related matters. Every time I see these commands I think how useful they are and then promptly forget about them. I’m going to make an … Continue reading →

I’m probably the last Emacs user to discover this but here’s a nifty trick that I learned today while trawling through some of Magnar Sveen’s .emacs.d files. If you hold down the shift key when moving the point, the region … Continue reading →

Xah Lee asks what’s the best way to jump to another position in a buffer and then return to the original point? Emacs users know a lot of ways of doing this. We can, for example, use 【Ctrl+s】 to move … Continue reading →

This is another note to myself. Recently I was examining the internal structure of the decimal expansion of a number. In order to do this, I put the decimal representation of the number in a buffer and did a query-replace-regexp … Continue reading →