Emacs
Marking whole word
I’ve discovered recently another Emacs facility that I since then use several times a day, and I wonder how I did without it before: C-M-SPC runs the command …
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Emacs Tips
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Emacs
About Vimgolf
Following some tweet I found myself desultory watching an episode of the awesome VimGolf in Emacs video series by Tim Visher. Those series are about picking some …
Emacs
Editing SQL
It’s hard to read my blog yet not know I’m using Emacs. It really is a great tool and has a lot to compare to PostgreSQL in terms of extensibility, …
Emacs
M-x recompile
A friend of mine just asked me for advice to tweak some Emacs features, and I think that’s really typical of using Emacs: rather than getting used to the way things …
Emacs
el-get-list-packages
From the first days of el-get is was quite clear for me that we would reach a point where users would want a nice listing including descriptions of the packages, and a …
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Emacs ANSI colors
Emacs comes with a pretty good implementation of a terminal emulator, M-x term. Well not that good actually, but given what I use it for, it’s just what I need. …
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Emacs Cheat Sheet
I stumbled upon the following cheat sheet for Emacs yesterday, and it’s worth sharing. I already learnt or discovered again some nice default chords, like for …
Emacs
Don't be afraid of 'cl
In this blog article, you’re shown a quite long function that loop through your buffers to find out if any of them is associated with a file whose full name …
Emacs
desktop-mode and readahead
I’m using Desktop Save Mode so that Emacs knows to open again all the buffers I’ve been using. That goes quite well with how often I start Emacs, that is once …
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Regexp performances and Finite Automata
The major reason why I dislike perl so much, and ruby too, and the thing I’d want different in the Emacs Lisp API so far is how they set developers mind into using …
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Emacs is Twinkling here
So you have a rolodex like database in your Emacs, or you have this phone number in a mail and you want to call it. It happens you have VoIP setup and you’re using …
Emacs
Escreen integration
After having used elscreen for a long time, I’m now a very happy user of escreen, which feels much better integrated and allows to have one ring of recently visited …