emacs command of the day

C-x 4 c : clone-indirect-buffer-other-window

I keep learning new tricks in emacs. Today I was studying an overstuffed file, with two large classes, and I needed to navigate around both as I followed the code paths bouncing back and forth between them. I frequently use the "narrow-to-region" command (C-x n n …

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pastebinit

Another package that appeared in debian today: pastebinit, which is a command-line tool to upload bits of code to some of the various pastebin web servers out there (handy when you want to discuss some code over IRC and don't want to jam the whole thing into the channel.. it …

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Emacs Trick of the Day

There are a few million gems hidden inside emacs. The two that I ran into most recently are:

C-x r m, C-x r b, C-x r l : these create named bookmarks, each of which records the file that you're visiting and a position within that file. When I need to …

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