M-x all-things-emacs

YASnippet, or Yet Another Snippet package just released a new beta with many new features. YaSnippet is a template system for emacs. It allows you to type an abbrevation and then trigger that abbreviation into an expansion in your buffer. Some of the new features are: Nested Placeholders: Nested placeholders allow you to support optional [...]

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In preparation for a new upcoming PeepCode screencast, Geoffrey Grosenbach put together a quick 5 minute Emacs introduction. It’s a good summary of some Emacs niceties. Geoffrey also wrote up some of his other initial Emacs impressions.

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There are a number of snippet packages that are available for emacs: snippet.el, smart-snippet, and the older skeleton and tempo packages that are a part of emacs. The snippet package was in the words of the developer: A quick stab at providing a simple template facility like the one present in TextMate (an OSX editor). [...]

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Recently, I have been doing more remote pair programming at my day job, and I was copying some code snippets into pastie. Pastie is a site that allows you to share code snippets with nice syntax highlighting. One thing led to another, and next I was searching for emacs integration with pastie. I found it [...]

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Every few months you see a thread on the emacs news groups polling to see the age or occupation of the users. Recently someone sent out a link on gnu.emacs.help to a site called BuddyMapping with a map for Emacs Users. I have always loved maps, and I am a sucker for these map mash-ups, [...]

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I give up. During the past 6 years of my emacs career, my .emacs initialization file grew to embarrassing levels. As of this morning, it is well over 1000 lines and is a looming burden of disorganization. Startup time is poor, customizations exist for modes that I don’t use anymore (ahem, csharp-mode), and it has [...]

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This might be old news to some, but it was new to me. XKeymacs is a keyboard utility to realize emacs-like usability on all windows applications. With XKeymacs you can use emacs keybindings with any windows application. You can create a keyboard macro and assign any shortcut key too. You also get bash-like command completion [...]

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I just ran across this article. The Church of Emacs is a good read… no it’s not from alt.religion.emacs. The article is more of a history of emacs with some great references as well.

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This is the start of a series on our favorite emacs packages. Some of these packages are part of emacs core, some aren’t (but we could argue should be). I use iswitchb-mode at least a hundred times a day. iswitchb is one of the features of emacs that I rave about whenever I try to [...]

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I ran across this package on gnu.emacs.sources recently. If you enable light-symbol-mode in a buffer and pause on a symbol, then Emacs will highlight all other occurrences of the symbol in the buffer. When you move point the highlighting goes away.

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