The past few weeks have been terribly busy with all kind of end-of-year things, so I didn’t manage to find time for posting new Emacs tips. Sorry about that 😇. So, without further ado, here’s a new one. This week’s tip is about pasting with the mouse. By default, Emacs acts like most other applications: […]
Read full case studyThis week’s tip is about balancing delimiters like parentheses, brackets, quotes, etc. The built-in electric-pair-mode does the following then enabled (copied from the manual, emphasis mine): Electric Pair mode, a global minor mode, provides a way to easily insert matching delimiters: parentheses, braces, brackets, etc. Whenever you insert an opening delimiter, the matching closing delimiter […]
Read full case studyTramp is a built-in Emacs “package” that allows you to edit files on remote servers with your local Emacs instance. But it doesn’t only do that, it can also be used to edit files as root via sudo. To achieve this use C-x C-f as you normally would to open a file. However, instead of […]
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