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Fixing wrong Shift+Numpad (keypad) behaviour in Emacs

By On 12 June 2013 · Leave a Comment

I struggled for a about an hour today with S-kp-home trying to bind it to something that would work properly in emacs (i.e select the text between cursor and start of line) before I figured out that although the problem manifested itself in Emacs, it is really due to the way Xwindows maps the Shift+Home/End… […]

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Emacs wrap lines (disable/enable with toggle-truncate-lines)

By On 8 February 2013 · Leave a Comment

Wrapping lines in emacs can be a real pain (fe.g. or programmers) or exactly what you want, for example if you’re writing the text of an email. At any rate it’s nice to know how to turn line wrap on and off in emacs – if anything every now and then you’d accidentally press the […]

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Make emacs grep/grep-find ignore .svn directories

By On 28 May 2012 · Leave a Comment

Emacs grep and grep-find command used to work great for me until I started working with SVN and all those .svn directories started popping up in my emacs grep searches…

So how can we make the emacs grep-find command ignore all the .svn directories?

Being mostly a “git” guy, and having been recently introduced to […]

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How to use emacs to replace Mac carriage returns (the ^M line endings, and that includes even the “stubborn” ones!)…

By On 29 March 2011 · 1 Comment

The below information was shamelessly copied, word for word, from http://mike.kruckenberg.com 🙂

Changing end-of-line Mode in Emacs (replaces ^M line return)

Every now and then I run into this. I export CSV data from Excel and find that when trying to use it in other places the line-returns aren’t quite right and unix tools […]

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