It’s frustrating when you have your buffers laid out just so, and then some command messes them up. In this episode I enable winner-mode, which keeps a ring buffer of window configurations so you can undo and redo changes to … Continue reading →

Unlike more lightweight editors, it doesn’t really make sense to run a new instance of Emacs whenever editing a file. Emacs is at its best when managing many buffers, frames, and windows from a single master process. That way you … Continue reading →

My brand-new init.el has been steadily growing. Before I go any further, it’s time to break it up into manageable pieces. I add some code to init.el which will load all elisp files in ~/.emacs24.d/init.d: (if (file-exists-p abg-init-dir) (dolist (file … Continue reading →

I’m keeping this configuration synchronized between two machines. For most changes simply pushing the change to my Emacs Reboot GitHub repo and pulling it on the other machine is all I need. But when the customizations depend on a certain … Continue reading →

Out of the box, Emacs shows me the current line number in the modeline, not the column number. And it doesn’t show any line numbers down the side of the page. Today I’m going to change that. First of all, … Continue reading →

Somtimes I just need some filler text. And it’s silly typing it out myself when I’m using a thermonuclear text editor. Via EmacsWiki, I discover lorem-ipsum.el. I toss it into my elisp folder and set up some autoloads so that … Continue reading →

In which I enable ido-mode for fast buffer and file switching.