Tag Archives: Emacs

The other day, I stumbled across this post over at Anything goes about scrolling up and down by line in Emacs. The poster gives two simple functions and some key bindings to scroll a window up or down a line. … Continue reading →

Trawling through the old Emacs COTWD twitter entries I came across something I didn’t know. In some situations, such as help screens, Emacs will open another window but keep the focus in the current window. When this happens, Emacs will … Continue reading →

Mickey over at Mastering Emacs has a great post on sorting in Emacs. Did you know you can sort by regular expressions? I didn’t. Get over there and read the post; it’s well worth your time. In fact, you might … Continue reading →

Urpo Lankinen over at the Avarthrel Blog has a post about coming home to Emacs for writing prose—specifically novels. Although he’s a longtime Emacs user, he’s long been wandering in the wilderness looking for a good writer’s editor. Emacs was … Continue reading →

I just stumbled across another feature of Emacs that is new to me. If you save files by typing C-x s, then for each dirty buffer Emacs will ask if you want to save it. By answering d Emacs will … Continue reading →