Month: June 2012

Sacha Chua has come up with a great idea of interviewing some of the big names in emacs. Check out her first video where she interviews John Wiegley. They cover some interesting ground. It makes me realise what an emacs amateur I am.

In emacs 24 C-+ and C– increase and decrease the display font size.

I often edit config files with: sudo emacs /etc/whatever The problem with that is I would end up with ~ backup files littering my filesystem and also emacs is run as root so it gets root’s config file. I’d rather use emacs with my config. The solution, thanks to emacs-fu is twofold: First set emacs’s… Continue reading Editing files using sudo and emacs

This works in emacs 24, not sure about previous versions. the keyboard shortcut matches Chrome’s full screen shortcut. ; keyboard shortcut to toggle full screen (global-set-key [s-return] ‘ns-toggle-fullscreen)</code>; keyboard shortcut to toggle full screen (global-set-key [s-return] ‘ns-toggle-fullscreen)</code> will define Cmd-return to toggle emacs between full screen and normal – the same shortcut as for chrome.