Tag Archives: Emacs

Eval And Replace In Emacs

Posted on 2011-10-14 by jcs

I was watching another of Tim Visher’s VimGolf videos in which he builds a multiplication table by the clever use of keyboard macros. What got my attention, however, was his use of the function eval-and-replace that evaluates the sexp preceding … Continue reading →

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Transposing In Emacs

Posted on 2011-10-13 by jcs

Most Emacs users know about using 【Ctrl+t】 to transpose two letters and 【Meta+t】 to transpose two words but there are two other useful transposition commands. You can use the sequence 【Ctrl+x Ctrl+t】 to transpose two lines. As with the other … Continue reading →

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Emacs Poll On Deleting And The Active Region

Posted on 2011-10-12 by jcs

Virtually all GUI environments will delete a highlighted region when the 【Backspace】/【Delete】 key is pressed or when a character is inserted into the region. Emacs does not currently do that except in a few minor modes such as CUA mode. … Continue reading →

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VimGolf In Emacs

Posted on 2011-10-10 by jcs

I recently saw a reference to Tim Visher’s VimGolf in Emacs videos on one of my feeds. It looked interesting so I hopped over to take a look. VimGolf is a site that poses editing challenges that are supposed to … Continue reading →

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Deft Filenames

Posted on 2011-10-08 by jcs

I’ve written a couple of times about Deft, which I described as a lightweight alternative to Org Mode. I’m still not using it for the reasons that I gave in those posts but lots of people are. One of those … Continue reading →

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Inserting Quotation Marks In Emacs Revisited

Posted on 2011-10-07 by jcs

The other day, I wrote about Inserting Quotation Marks In Emacs Org Mode and I wrote a little bit of elisp to insert \ldquo{}\rdquo in the buffer and then place the point between the two quote commands. I remarked at … Continue reading →

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Inserting Quotation Marks In Emacs Org Mode

Posted on 2011-10-03 by jcs

As I was writing yesterday’s post I started to enter \rdquo{} to get an opening double quotation mark for what seemed like the millionth time. I suddenly realized that this was really stupid and a waste of time so I … Continue reading →

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Emacs As A Lisp Machine

Posted on 2011-09-30 by jcs

Xah Lee has an update to his Emacs and Unicode Tips page that I’ve written about before on my old blog. This is a great reference that tells you how to deal with Unicode and UTF-8 in Emacs. One of … Continue reading →

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Google Contacts And Emacs

Posted on 2011-09-28 by jcs

As a dweller in the Apple ecosystem (or walled garden if you prefer) I enjoy a shared and automatically synced contacts list across my Macs, iPhone and iPad. Therefore I don’t bother with Google contacts. Many people do, though, and … Continue reading →

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First Emacs 24 Pretest Is Available

Posted on 2011-09-26 by jcs

Chong Yidong is reporting that Emacs 24.0.90, the first Emacs 24 pretest, is available for download at ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-24.0.90.tar.gz. As usual, the changes are listed in etc/NEWS. In the comments to my post about Emacs 24 features, several of the commenters … Continue reading →