Tag Archives: Emacs

Some More Emacs Dired Magic

Posted on 2011-08-12 by jcs

In a comment to my post yesterday about A Nice Emacs Dired Command Sue Nymme notes that in addition to 【* t】 a plain 【t】 will also toggle the marks in a Dired buffer. That brings up another Dired trick … Continue reading →

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A Nice Emacs Dired Command

Posted on 2011-08-11 by jcs

As I’ve mentioned many times, I write my blog posts in Emacs and publish them with org2blog. After I push the post to WordPress, I have a buffer and file with the HTML that I no longer need. I used … Continue reading →

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Solarized On Emacs

Posted on 2011-08-09 by jcs

Unlike many hackers, I don’t care for a dark-themed Emacs so I use the basic black on white screen. Lately this scheme has begun to feel overly bright and I thought I would try some lower contrast colors. I’ve browsed … Continue reading →

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Let Emacs Make Your Scripts Executable

Posted on 2011-08-08 by jcs

Because I like to automate things, I write a lot of shell scripts. Sometimes it’s just some simple shell code, other times the script loads and executes a Scheme program. Almost every time I do this, I forget to set … Continue reading →

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The Emacs Info Apropos Command

Posted on 2011-08-05 by jcs

I’m a longtime Unix programmer. I started before Linux or FreeBSD and if you count Xenix, I programmed on versions as early as System III. As a result, I came to view the man page as the sine qua non … Continue reading →

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Some More Emacs Tips

Posted on 2011-08-03 by jcs

Gurmeet Manku shares some Emacs Tips n Tricks for Everybody on his homepage. A lot of these will be familiar to most Emacs users and some are things I wouldn’t want to do but it’s a nice list of things … Continue reading →

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Putting Shell Output In The Current Buffer

Posted on 2011-08-01 by jcs

I’ve long used 【Meta+|】 to pipe a region to a shell command. I use it all the time to pipe troff input to groff and display the results with gxditview. Recently I learned that if you specify a prefix arg … Continue reading →

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Using set-mark-command To Remember Locations

Posted on 2011-07-27 by jcs

A couple of days ago I wrote a note to myself post to help me remember the align-regexp functionality. Today’s post is another note to myself. A recent post by Xah Lee reminded me of some Emacs functionality that I … Continue reading →

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Aligning Text With Regular Expressions in Emacs

Posted on 2011-07-25 by jcs

This is really a note to myself. A while ago I ran across this post over at RAW SYNTAX about the Emacs command align-regexp. I don’t require this functionality very often but when I do, align-regexp is just what I … Continue reading →

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Emacs Aliases

Posted on 2011-07-12 by jcs

Xah Lee has a nice post on using Emacs aliases to increase productivity. He uses aliases for two purposes: To change the behavior of Emacs For example, he has the alias (defalias ‘yes-or-no-p ‘y-or-n-p) This gets rid of the annoying … Continue reading →

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