Emacs and Gnus: zomg, new chapter out the door!
So I _finally_ pulled everything together and got my Gnus chapter out the door. Hooray, hooray, hooray! Reading Mail with Gnus (PDF) Reading Mail with Gnus (HTML), produced by Org Disclaimers: It’s...
View ArticleWhy browse the Web in Emacs?
2014-11-27: Hi, Hacker News! Remember, this post is from 2008 and predates Emacs 24.4. I hear EWW (Emacs Web Wowser?) is pretty cool and have been meaning to try it out. Anyway, on with the show! “Are...
View ArticleEmacs and w3m: Fake your user agent
In an ideal world, you would never need to make your browser pretend to be a different browser. In reality, a number of websites check for specific browsers such as Mozilla or Internet Explorer, or...
View ArticleEmacs and W3M: Toggling between work and the Web
Here’s a handy shortcut that toggles between the W3M web browser and other buffers you’re working on. I use it to quickly switch between code and documentation (or your favorite timewasting site, as it...
View ArticleEmacs and w3m: Making tabbed browsing easier
If you browse with a lot of open tabs, like I do, w3m will be much easier to use once you remap w3m-next-buffer and w3m-previous-buffer onto single-key shortcuts, allowing you to press a key to quickly...
View ArticleEmacs w3m: Open pages in external browsers
Sometimes w3m is not enough. To make it easier to open the current page in a browser such as Mozilla Firefox, add the following to your ~/.emacs: (defun wicked/w3m-open-current-page-in-firefox () "Open...
View ArticleEmacs basics: Changing the background color
One of the first things you’ll probably want to change about Emacs is the default face. This controls the foreground color, the background color, the font, and other attributes. For example, many...
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