{"id":5804,"date":"2016-12-20T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T20:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=5804"},"modified":"2016-12-20T15:27:35","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T20:27:35","slug":"a-bookmark-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=5804","title":{"rendered":"A Bookmark Video"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the Emacs features that I really like and use all the time is bookmarks. I have a lot of files that I use several times every day and it’s really convenient to be able to bring them up immediately1<\/a><\/sup> without typing in a file path. This works even if the file is already in a buffer so I can always do the same thing to bring one of those files up. Since I use Bookmark+<\/code>, I can also set a bookmark for Irreal and Emacs will automatically open Irreal in my browser. <\/p>\n

There are a lot of things you can do with bookmarks that aren’t obvious so I was happy to find this (old) video on bookmarks<\/a> by Aaron Camposs. It’s just 7 minutes long so it’s easy to find time to watch it. Once nice thing that I was only vaguely aware of is that you can set a bookmark to a file on a remote system as well as files on the local machine. If you spend a lot of time working with files on a remote machine, this can be a real timesaver. <\/p>\n

If you aren’t already using bookmarks, you should watch the video and see what you’re missing. It really is a great feature of Emacs that everyone should know about. <\/p>\n

\n

Footnotes: <\/h2>\n
\n
1<\/a><\/sup> <\/p>\n
\n

Using an idea I stole from abo-abo<\/a>, I can usually choose the appropriate bookmark with a single key. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the Emacs features that I really like and use all the time is bookmarks. I have a lot of files that I use several times every day and it’s really convenient to be able to bring them up … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-5804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-emacs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5805,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804\/revisions\/5805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}