Tag Archives: Emacs

As I mentioned previously, I’m learning Spanish so worrying about accented characters has become a way of life. The above post talks about one of Prot’s videos that discusses how to change the input method for Emacs only rather than … Continue reading →

Good news from Eli Zaretskii. In a post to the Emacs Devel list he announced that Emacs 29.2 has been released and is ready for downloading. It’s a maintenance release that fixes some bugs but there are no new features. … Continue reading →

I said that I was over writing about marking the active window and changing mode line colors, but, as they say, never say never. If all you want to do is change the color of the active mode line to … Continue reading →

Norman Walsh has an interesting post in which he discusses discovering browsing in Emacs. More specifically, he discovered how to follow a link in an Email and have the result displayed in Emacs. He’s using WebKit with Xwidgets so that … Continue reading →

Charles Choi has another Emacs nugget: how to (persistently) highlight isearch targets. The idea is that you may have a lot of hits for your search and would like to keep them highlighted so that you can examine them in … Continue reading →

Back in 2015, I wrote about Josh Stella’s wonderful article on A CEO’s Guide to Emacs. Someone just posted a link to Stella’s post so I took the opportunity to reread it. It seems just as apropos now as it … Continue reading →

Susam Pal has a nice reminder on using query-replace-regexp. Most Emacs users know about the command and its binding Ctrl+Meta+% but Pal’s post mentions some less known features that can be very useful. The first—and simplest—is using \& in the … Continue reading →

Jeremy Friesen has another interesting post. This time it’s about removing diacritics from a string. His problem is that he uses the same string for the title of a post as well as the name of the file containing the … Continue reading →