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Indenting of comments in emacs-lisp mode
Emacs-lisp mode indents comments based on the number of semi-colons prefixing them. One semi-colon indents to column 40. Two semi-colons indent to the same level as the block you are in. Three semi-colons indent to wherever you place it and don’t move if you press <TAB> ;;; column: ;;;34567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789 ; one semi-colon (when (some case)…
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Re-reading the emacs tutorial
It came upon me to re-read the emacs tutorial. Last time I read it was probably about 17 years ago. Things might have changed since then. I picked up two things: C-/ is undo and is equivalent to C-_ C-h c gives you brief help on a keyboard shortcut. I was using C-h k but…
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Swap Registers in emacs calc
<TAB> to swap the contents of the last two registers in calc.
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emacs keyboard macros
If you haven’t explored the power of keyboard macros in emacs, you should. You only need to remember a few keys to get going: <F3> Start recording a macro <F4> End recording a macro C-x e to repeat the macro Give it a go!
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Expadirk: a hack to split PDFs and email based on instructions within
Sune Vuorela wrote a post asking people to make sure their private hacks become public. That inspired me to publish Expadirk. Expadirk is my solution to my accounting software provider requiring me to purchase yet more proprietary software in order to send statements, purchase orders and invoices by email. The accounting package has a way of outputting print…
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Piwik GPL web analytics
Piwik is an open source (GPLed) web analytics program. It looks very comprehensive. I will endeavour to install it and test it out soon. I’ll report back on it when I do. There is also a WordPress plugin for Piwik.
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Emacs Rocks videos
Magnar from @emacsrocks has produced some really nice emacs demos. They confirm my emacs tragic status. I hope to one day be 1/10th as good as Magnar. I found the video about multiple-cursors particularly fascinating. In fact all the videos are mind-blowing!
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I broke my favourite mug
About 18 or so years ago (I can’t believe it was that long ago) a friend (Jules, drop me a line if you read this?) from Canberra gave me this mug. She picked mugs with similar messages for me, Damo and Stevo. Mine said “Only my computer understands me”, I think Damo’s said “Do I…
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Import historical data from Apache logs into AWStats
One of my clients had a problem where the last 6 months of data was not in Google Analytics. Upon investigating it turned out that for some reason the WordPress Google Analytics plugin was not active. I could not determine why it was not active when I am sure I set it up in the…
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Select what you typed rather than the completion in ido-mode
Sometimes you don’t want the completion that ido is offering me in Emacs, for instance when trying to create a temporary buffer C-x C-b sometempbuffername. C-j will to get ido to accept what you typed rather than the completion.
Got any book recommendations?