M-x all-things-emacs

Zenspider gives us an excellent tip for extending incremental search. Add this to your emacs initialization:

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(define-key isearch-mode-map (kbd "C-o") (lambda () (interactive) (let ((case-fold-search isearch-case-fold-search)) (occur (if isearch-regexp isearch-string [...]

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By default, dired creates new buffers when visiting new directories. Sometimes this is desired, especially when you need to visualize the contents of two separate directories; however, when you’re just navigating around, all the extra buffers tend to clutter your buffer list.

Typical navigation is done with dired-find-file (bound to f, RET, or [...]

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In part 1 of the series, we discussed two ways to resize the emacs frame on startup. Here, we will use the display-pixel-width and display-pixel-height functions to automatically determine the proper size of the emacs frame.

Option 3 (the package)

As I tried to come up with a generic way to maximize the emacs frame on [...]

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Setting a mark (C-SPC) is probably the most frequent command I use besides basic navigation. The mark not only acts as a saved jump-to point, but it also sets the region. A region is what other editors might call a selection. By default, emacs does not highlight the active region, so it [...]

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Macosxhints.com points us to a way to enable emacs key bindings in Microsoft Word. Just assign new shortcut keys to each of these Word commands (instructions below):

StartOfLine : C-a
EndOfLine : C-e
LineUp : C-p
LineDown : C-n
CharLeft : C-b
CharRight : C-f

Please [...]

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This post describes how to integrate jdee, ant, and the eclipse batch compiler to get the same warning and error messages as your Eclipse-loving friends. I am assuming that you already know your way around the jdee environment (i.e., you have it setup and configured such that you can run an ant build from within [...]

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Many times I use global key mappings for commands that I use every day. For example, I build java projects daily using ant, so I have the following in my .emacs:

(global-set-key [f5] ‘jde-build)

Less frequently, I use the C-c C-v C-. which is the default key binding for the command jde-complete. Both commands are in [...]

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By default, dired only deletes empty directories. You know the drill. Put your point on the directory, D, y (yes), “file-error Removing directory directory not empty,” (slam fist on table). Doh!

Fortunately, dired supports deleting directories recursively. Add this to your .emacs:

(setq dired-recursive-deletes ‘top)

The dired-recursive-deletes variable decides whether recursive deletes are allowed. [...]

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This one is personal preference, but I find it annoying when emacs beeps on errors. I like knowing when something bad/unexpected happened, but the beep is too much when the sound is on and useless when muted. Add this to your .emacs to enable a visual alert cue that flashes the frame instead:

(setq [...]

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Part of the reason we started M-x all-things-emacs was to encourage newcomers to the emacs world. The emacs learning curve is a steep one, and sometimes it’s easy for the more advanced members of the contingent to take some of the basics for granted. This is the first of a series of [...]

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