Tag Archives: Emacs

Almost evry Emacs user is familiar with 【Meta+<】 and 【Meta+>】, the commands to move to the beginning and end of the current buffer. Today while browsing in Aaron Hawley’s excellent Emacs Reference Sheet, which I’ve written about before, I discovered … Continue reading →

I’ve been using Emacs for some time but am still regularly amazed at how it just does the right thing and in the expected way. Emacs has a well deserved reputation of having a steep learning curve and, indeed, like … Continue reading →

Back in July I wrote about using aliases to replace longer, hard to remember command names. Several of the commenters said that I should use smex to bring the wonders of Ido to extended commands. I finally got around to … Continue reading →

While browsing around in the EmacsWiki, I came across a nice way of quickly opening frequently accessed files. The idea is to put the target file in a register and then jump to the register. For example, I frequently open … Continue reading →

I use TRAMP all the time to edit files on a remote machine: it’s quick, easy, and pretty much transparent. I just learned something new that in retrospect should have been obvious. You can obtain a listing of remote directories … Continue reading →

Sometimes it’s convenient to have a ruler on your Emacs screen. Not often but sometimes. For example, it can be useful for lining things up in artist-mode. Emacs has a very nice ruler that, among other things, tracks were the … Continue reading →

I’ve just run across an interesting site created by Strzelewicz Alexandre called Emacs Vs or Emacs Vote System. Users post their favorite Emacs tricks and the other users vote them up or down—much like Hacker News or reddit. The current … Continue reading →

Aaron Hawley has updated his already huge Emacs cheat sheet from 1000 commands to 1500. You can get it from the EmacsWiki. At 60 HTML pages (15 when printed) it’s far too large for everyday use, but it is fun … Continue reading →