Tag Archives: Emacs

Xah’s Emacs Quiz

Posted on 2011-09-23 by jcs

Xah Lee has another Emacs challenge. This time, it’s to replace entries of the form <tr><td>pound</td><td>£</td><td>pound sign, U+00A3</td></tr> with entries like this: <tr><td>pound</td>£<td>pound sign, U+00A3</td></tr> This is, presumably, a small tweaking of Lee’s very useful page on HTML/XML Entities that … Continue reading →

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Setting The Goal Column In Emacs

Posted on 2011-09-22 by jcs

As you move vertically from line-to-line, Emacs tries to keep the point in the same column position or as near to it as it can. Normally, that’s what you want to have happen but sometimes it’s convenient to have the … Continue reading →

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Emacs Keybindings for Mac OS X

Posted on 2011-09-19 by jcs

As many Mac OS X/Emacs users know, OS X has many of the Emacs key bindings defined for the entire system. Thus, bindings like 【Ctrl+f】, 【Ctrl+b】, 【Ctrl+a】, 【Ctrl+e】, 【Ctrl+k】, 【Ctrl+y】, 【Ctrl+p】, 【Ctrl+n】, and a few others work across the whole … Continue reading →

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The Emacs `goto-line` Command

Posted on 2011-09-18 by jcs

As I’ve written before, I came to Emacs after years as a Vi/Vim user. One of the things I was used to doing in Vim was to go to line N in a file by typing :N in command mode. … Continue reading →

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Using Deft With Org Mode In Emacs

Posted on 2011-09-16 by jcs

Earlier this week I wrote about the Deft package for Emacs. Deft is a note taking facility by Jason Blevens modeled on Notational Velocity. I opined at the time that while Deft provides a simple, lightweight note-taking mode, it doesn’t … Continue reading →

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The Emacs Regular Expression Builder

Posted on 2011-09-14 by jcs

Emacs’ regular expressions are notoriously tricky. They aren’t Perl Regular Expression compatible and the escaping rules are not always what you’d expect if you’re used to Unix regular expressions. Most of us, therefore, have experienced wasted time and frustration trying … Continue reading →

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A Lightweight Alternative To Emacs Org Mode

Posted on 2011-09-12 by jcs

As regular readers know, I am fanatical Org mode user. Almost everything I write in Emacs that isn’t programming code ends up in Org mode. Sometimes, even code does. Still, Org mode is a large system with lots of functionality … Continue reading →

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Printing In Emacs Lisp

Posted on 2011-09-11 by jcs

Xah Lee has added another page to his excellent series on Emacs Lisp. This time it’s about printing in Emacs Lisp. Most of us who have written any elisp are familiar with the message function, which prints a message to … Continue reading →

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Emacs 24 Features

Posted on 2011-09-11 by jcs

Bozhidar Batsov over at (think) recently loaded the current development version of Emacs 24 and gives us a peek at its features. The post is a very nice look at what’s coming in the next version of Emacs and well … Continue reading →

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A Quick Emacs Tip: `zrgrep`

Posted on 2011-09-08 by jcs

Commenting on my post about Emacs and tar fles, Phil remarks that he likes the way Emacs keeps its source code gzipped and decompresses a file transparently when you open it. But he was unhappy that he couldn’t use 【Meta+x】 … Continue reading →