It has been two weeks since the last time I did a round-up of emacs news. That previous post is still 20th on emacs reddit. Is there really so little emacs-related news of note?
Mr Michael Will demonstrates how to fill a paragraph in SGML-mode where presumably there aren’t any convenient line breaks to prevent it from filling the entire buffer. I’d also mention C-x ( ... C-x ) to record a macro if it is something you’re doing a lot, or even add a binding to fill-region-as-paragraph.
beatak has a couple of useful beginner tips on his blog. I’ve added his code for versioned auto-save to my own start-up and he also has some notes an generating a tagfile generating a tagfile.
I have written far too much about emacs muse in the past couple of weeks, and part 1 and part 4 may be useful for beginners to muse.
I presented a way of compiling your start-up code when you run emacs to avoid the problem of emacs preferring compiled code over newer uncompiled code.
Marc Abramowitz wrote about remote compilation back in 2006 but he needs to fix his link to his rcompile patch. (it currently goes to marc-abramowitz.info).
There are posts on searching multiple buffers, emacs version control and emacs buttons within the same blog.
I’ve found another guy compiling emacs news.
I just fixed the link. Thanks for the heads up!
I wonder if that patch is still applicable/useful? I haven’t used it in ages, since I’ve been able to do my recent projects on the Mac itself so I can use Aquamacs or Eclipse without any tricks.
No worries Marc
I’m not sure if the patch is still applicable but it is something I was thinking of looking into as an alternative way of working around having multiple perforce client configurations. The problem is described in my
Emacs users, what is your $EDITOR post.