When working on a file from start to finish over a lifetime in Emacs, for example as in translating a lengthy text, it is good to keep the file bookmarked at the end of every day, because Emacs’ bookmarks save the cursor location. This way, whenever opening the file from bookmarks again to continue with it, it opens where it had been left off.
Continue reading “Rebookmark in Emacs”Emacs: Electric undesirables
In my Emacs config I have enabled only electric-pair-mode to speed up some quotes and parens. Either this or something else also enables electric-indent-mode which produces weird cursor behaviour in Org lists, particularly when I disagree that I am in a list, so I have ended up suppressing electric-indent-mode explicitly by setting M-x customize-option RET electric-indent-mode off.
The best buffers list in Emacs: bs-show
How about triggering a popup list of buffers with a keybind, finding your preferred next buffer to go to with arrow keys, and launching it with Enter, which at the same time dismisses the popup list of buffers? This is how bs-show behaves in Emacs.
Two hooks for Emacs Occur
Occur is the best search function in Emacs. It
- Lists search results from the entire buffer (not just from the cursor forward or from the cursor backward)
- Lists the results in a separate buffer (so you are not unnecessarily moving away from your current location in the original buffer to find a wanted search result)
- Provides line numbers for matched results
Emacs: Copy this line
Emacs tends to mark from point (cursor) towards either end of the element. If you want a function that marks or copies the entire element from beginning to end, you often have to build them yourself.
Continue reading “Emacs: Copy this line”Emacs Hemingway mode
Well, there is no Hemingway mode. That is, there is no way to write like a novelist on a typewriter. On a typewriter the current line is always at the same place.
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