Emacs offers NO completion aid for filling out Font Family field in M-x customize-face RET In an earlier post titled Use `org-extra-emphasis’ , when you need more Emphasis Markers in Emacs Org mode, I talked about how one can have custom emphasis in org-mode. In that post, bulk of the effort involves installing some additional … Continue reading Enable completions for `Font Family’ field in `M-x customize-face RET’
Setting the context for this article This article is a continuation of my earlier article View ‘info’, ‘texi’, ‘org’ and ‘md’ files as ‘Info’ manual. That article talked about how you may view info, texi, org and md files as info manual. The article claimed that browsing Emacs-related documentation is a fragmented and dis-orienting experience, … Continue reading View Emacs ‘NEWS’ files as ‘Info’ manual too
Browsing documetation, even Emacs-related documentaion, within Emacs is a non-uniform experience I have been using Emacs for close to two decades now. When it comes to viewing documentation in Emacs, I have suffered a lot. I remember a time when I had a texi or info file at hand, and did a C-x C-f to … Continue reading View ‘info’, ‘texi’, ‘org’ and ‘md’ files as ‘Info’ manual
Foreword Emacs is self-documenting; despite that there is no dearth of packages which make it more “helpful” like Helpful: An alternative to the built-in Emacs help that provides much more contextual information.[1] About elisp-examples The package elisp-examples: Augment output of ‘C-h f’ (=‘describe-function’) with usage examples[1] is one more addtion to this “helpful” list. The … Continue reading Augment output of ‘C-h f’ (=‘describe-function’) with usage examples
A letter is unlike a text document Lately, I have been interacting with many Government Departments, submitting applications forms for one reason or the other. In many instances, these applications had to be accompanied by a Cover Letter. A formal letter is unlike a text document, and type-setting a letter poses a different type of … Continue reading How to produce formal Indian-style Letters using Org-mode and OpenDocument exporter
Few words about Meta, Super, Hyper and Alt modifiers on Emacs Emacs traditionally allowed (and continues to allow use of) Super, Hyper and Alt modifiers. Unfortunately, modern keyboards do not come with full spectrum of modifiers that Emacs understands. For example, I use a Dell Windows Laptop. It runs Debian/Unstable configured with a GNOME/Flashback Desktop. … Continue reading Use ‘xkb’ to setup full-spectrum of modifiers—Meta, Alt, Super, and Hyper—for use with Emacs
Terminal Emacs handicaps your GUI Emacs, and makes less number of keys available to you If you are on GUI Emacs you can get atleast three additional keys. Ctrl-i, Ctrl-m and Ctrl-[. Experienced users of Emacs “know” that Ctrl-i behaves similar to key labeled Tab Ctrl-m behaves similar to the key labelled Enter or Return … Continue reading Three bonus keys—‘C-i’, ‘C-m’ and ‘C-[’—for your GUI Emacs; all with zero headache
