Tag Archives: Emacs

Emacs Registers

Posted on 2011-10-28 by jcs

Back in September I wrote about using registers to open frequently accessed files. Shortly afterwards, someone recommended just saving my desktop with desktop-save-mode and I haven’t really used registers since. More recently, I started watching Tim Visher’s excellent VimGolf in … Continue reading →

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Blogging With Emacs

Posted on 2011-10-27 by jcs

Xah Lee asked me to write about my blog publishing process and how an article gets from Emacs to my site. I’ve written about most of the parts of the process in various posts but it might be useful to … Continue reading →

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Applying and And or In Emacs

Posted on 2011-10-26 by jcs

Zach Beane has a nice Common Lisp tip about applying and. The problem that the tip addresses is how to apply and to a list of values to test that they are all true. One might think that you could … Continue reading →

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Making The Emacs Minibuffer Recursive

Posted on 2011-10-23 by jcs

Mickey, over at Mastering Emacs, has a great post on Executing Shell Commands in Emacs and does his usual excellent job of explaining the fine points of his subject matter. I’ve written about some of this material here, but there’s … Continue reading →

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Multiplication Table In Emacs Revisited

Posted on 2011-10-21 by jcs

Yesterday, I wrote about generating a 10 × 10 multiplication table in Emacs Lisp. The solution I gave involved using the dolist macro with a list of the numbers 1–10 like this (dolist (r ‘(1 2 3 4 5 6 … Continue reading →

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Multiplication Table In Emacs Lisp

Posted on 2011-10-20 by jcs

Xah Lee saw my post about Tim Visher’s video on building a multiplication table in Emacs and decided to experiment. Visher’s video was in the context of VimGolf where the goal was to build the table in the minimum number … Continue reading →

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The Emacs Help Function

Posted on 2011-10-19 by jcs

Most Emacs users are familiar with the “common” help functions Key Function 【f】 Describe function 【v】 Describe variable 【k】 Describe key sequence 【a】 Apropos 【i】 Info and perhaps a few others such as 【Ctrl+a】 to display the Emacs start page. … Continue reading →

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Replace Digits By Subscripts In Emacs

Posted on 2011-10-17 by jcs

Xah Lee had an interesting Emacs Lisp problem last week but I was away and unable to join the fun. The problem is to replace any occurrence of a digit in a string by the equivalent subscript. Thus 1 → … Continue reading →

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A Screencast on Emacs Dired Basics

Posted on 2011-10-16 by jcs

If you’re new to Dired and like to learn visually (as compared to, say, reading about a subject), Kenny Meyer has an interesting screencast on Dired basics that you may enjoy. He covers Copying files Deleting files Renaming files Creating … Continue reading →

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Delete Backwards To BOL in Emacs

Posted on 2011-10-15 by jcs

This is another short Emacs tip that’s really a note to myself. The other day, I found myself in the middle of a line and needed to delete everything back to the beginning-of-line. I was sure there was some way … Continue reading →

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