minor emacs wizardry

If you use Google’s Blogger, GCal and/or Reader, run-don’t-walk and grab the new Emacs Client For Google Services. Awesome!.

This one, called Living in Emacs (PDF), covers the very basics of using Emacs as your working environment: Getting started with Emacs requires navigating a steep learning curve. Our goal is to help you past the initially unfamiliar interface so that the power and utility of Emacs become apparent. Then you’ll be ready to explore further [...]

When i use Firefox, there’s nothing more annoying than editing a textarea. On a Mac, one has at least some Emacs-like shortcuts. Incomprehensibly, on GTK+ 2.0 Emacs shortcuts are no longer the default, and one has to put something like include "/usr/share/themes/Emacs/gtk-2.0-key/gtkrc" in ~/.gtkrc-2.0 to restore a minimum of sanity. But still, what i really want is to [...]

Emacs-w3m comes with an excellent tab mode, which you can enable with (setq w3m-use-tab t) in your .emacs. C-cC-t creates new tabs, C-cC-w closes them and you can navigate then with C-cC-[np], or, my favourite, using a tab list via C-cC-s (if you didn’t know about this one, give it a try: it’s very useful). But [...]

MIT’s SIPB IAP activities page is a treasure trove of interesting stuff. Among the many classes programmed for 2007, there’s one that i’m sure will be interesting to many mew readers: Being Productive With Emacs. The good news is that you don’t need to travel to Boston to get this excellent illustrated introduction to Emacs, [...]

This one is only for hardcore emacsers who are into programming languages theory: a lambda calculus interpreter written in Elisp by Michael Olson. Enjoy!

I’ve spent part of the morning setting up Gnus on my OS X, to replace Mail.app and ease synchronization with my GNU/Linux boxes. I won’t enter in the details of basic Gnus setup (see, for instance, the Gnus tutorial), but offer some customization tips, and mention two of my favourite Gnus-enhancing packages (which are not [...]

Most of the time, I run Emacs in a single, maximized frame (and, sometimes, just inside a urxvt terminal). Inside that frame i create and destroy windows as needed to contain my buffers [0]. After a while working with Emacs one gets used to a fluid window setup, where windows come and go as need [...]

imenu is a very handy command i learnt not long ago. Just type M-x imenu in a source code buffer (an Elisp one, for instance) and start typing the name of a variable or function (or simply TAB for name completion). There you go: instant access to definitions in the buffer. You can also get the [...]

Kind reader William Annis noticed how clumsily i copied a line in the kill ring in my last screencast. I went to the beginning of the line (C-a), killed it (C-k) so i got it in my kill-ring, and yanked it back (C-y). Admittedly, a bit cumbersome, my only excuse being that i have this [...]