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Sean Whitton

Posted on 2025-12-28 by jcs

Good news for Emacsers. Sean Whitton has been appointed an Emacs maintainer by RMS. He joins a list of really excellent maintainers who devote untold hours of their time maintaining Emacs for our benefit. It’s hard to overstate the debt … Continue reading →

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Snippets With Abbrev Mode

Posted on 2025-11-15 by jcs

I’m a big user of yasnippet. I invoke it several times a day in various contexts. I also use the builtin Emacs abbrev-mode for some simpler text substitutions: “ra” for “→” for instance. Again, I usually use this facility several … Continue reading →

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Searching As You Like It

Posted on 2022-03-27 by jcs

Álvaro Ramírez likes that Emacs’ customizability means that you can make it behave exactly the way you want it to. He illustrates this with a simple but useful bit of Elisp that implements what he describes as a DWIM search. … Continue reading →

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region-or-thing

Posted on 2011-05-05 by jcs

Emacs Lisp has an amazingly useful function called thing-at-point, which will return the object that the point is currently on. You call it as (thing-at-point THING) where THING is a symbol that specifies the kind of object you want. Possibilities, … Continue reading →

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