Emacs 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...
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 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 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: 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 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 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 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...
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 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 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: 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 ArticleWhy browse the Web in Emacs?
“Are you browsing Slashdot in Emacs?”, W- asked me after he glanced at my screen. With Emacs’ reputation for including everything _and_ the kitchen sink, you probably won’t be surprised to hear that...
View ArticleEmacs 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 ArticleEmacs and PHP tutorial: php-mode
php-mode is responsible for syntax highlighting, indentation, and other major PHP-specific modifications to your editing environment. There are a number of PHP modes available for Emacs. In this...
View ArticleThings I can do to make progress on my book
Switch my development environment to Emacs Put together the existing book chapters I have so far Process the tech reviews I’ve gotten back Work on one outline item Work on a different chapter View and...
View ArticleMight need to spend more time hanging out with Emacs geeks =)
This is dreadful. I’ve made no progress on my book, and I’ve noticed that it has steadily crept down my list of priorities. I suspect it has a lot to do with the kinds of people I hang out with and the...
View ArticleEmacs Gnus: Filter Spam
(draft for an upcoming book called Wicked Cool Emacs) Ah, spam, the bane of our Internet lives. There is no completely reliable way to automatically filter spam. Spam messages that slip through the...
View ArticleEmacs Gnus: Organize Your Mail
People handle large volumes of mail in different ways. Keeping everything in one mailbox can quickly become unmanageable because messages you need to read get lost among messages you don’t need to...
View ArticleEmacs Gnus: Searching Mail
There are several ways to find messages in Emacs. From the summary buffer, you can use / o (gnus-summary-insert-old-articles) to display all or some old messages. You can then scan through the headers...
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