The previous post shows the following command to automatically take the selected region, add asterisks around it and rename the buffer accordingly:
Continue reading “Emacs: A better version to automatically rename buffer with region plus asterisks”Emacs: Automatically rename buffer with region
For some workflows that include keeping an eye on many open buffers, it is sometimes useful to rename buffers. This is where inbuilt function rename-buffer comes in, by default bound to C-x x r.
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Emacs: Open a Bookmarked File and Save to a Bookmarked File
In Emacs, it is possible to bookmark a file at a certain location, or bookmark locations in any other Emacs’ buffers, such as in dired (Emacs’ file manager). Bookmarking is a quick way of finding and opening files that you need often.
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Select a line in Emacs
Emacs has out of the box selection for word, sentence, paragraph, and whole buffer, but apparently not for line. Let’s fix this.
Continue reading “Select a line in Emacs”Emacs as Word Processor: Org mode
Org mode is a markup language built with minimal resources around plain text, so it is as easy to adopt as markdown. In fact, Org mode is even easier because it does not have different implementations (flavours) that require a specific text editor where that particular flavour is fully implemented, as is the case with markdown. There is just one full-featured Org mode fully implemented in its single editor – Emacs.
Continue reading “Emacs as Word Processor: Org mode”Emacs as Word Processor: Selection
Before copying or cutting, the normal thing to do is to select a region for it. Here are some of the relevant commands and configuration options.
Continue reading “Emacs as Word Processor: Selection”Emacs as Word Processor: Copy and Paste
A word processor is distinct from an editor. Editors are for coders. Word processors are for (prose) writers. In either case, plain text is best and formatting is to be kept to a bare minimum, so that e.g. copy and paste across programs would work as expected.
Continue reading “Emacs as Word Processor: Copy and Paste”Drag and drop by keyboard
Drag and drop by dragging the mouse on the desk is probably the single most physically strenuous effort an office employee or typist or any computer user has to perform, particularly when done repetitively day in day out. Here is how to migrate this destructive gesture to keyboard in Linux.
Continue reading “Drag and drop by keyboard”Tiling window managers suck less
Wolfgang on Youtube says that tiling window managers suck. But he is a(n ex-)tiling window manager user himself, so it can be just an overstatement designed to poke. Therefore let’s be lenient.
Make TTY font huge
Frankly, the default tty font in modern Linux distros is way out of line. First, it is so tiny that it is evil. It should respect 80 characters width or something close to that. Second, the font can be configured on a way too limited base. Moreover, it does not display in nice full xterm-256color colours. Luckily, all this can be fixed.
