Having my work changed a lot during the last year, from a Lunix developer to a half developer half support and now are purely support, I do not have many chance to use Emacs that often anymore, but I keep to use to it as much as possible. After all it’s my first editor in my programmer career. One thing I like is its shell buffers. Unfortunately, It only support one shell as I thought before. Because if you type M-x shell to open a new shell buffer, if you already have one open that will just switch to the existing one.
Category: Emacs
Use Regular Expressions in Emacs
Posted by – April 13, 2006
What is Regular Expression? A regular expression is a special text string for describing a certain amount of text. Generally, A regular expression contains a few special characters and ordinary characters. If you have used Linux/Windows systems, you will probably familiar with wildcard notations such as *.txt to find all text files in a folder. That’s a simple regular expression example (Thanks for netcasper’s correcting . The regex equivalent to “.txt” is .*.txt). Nowadays, Most of the text editors support regular expression such as vi, emacs and Ultra Editor(not a free software). Today, I would like introduce some basic knowledge about regular expression and use it in Emacs to improve the efficiency of your coding work.
Some commands I often use in Emacs
Posted by – August 18, 2005
Before the end of June, 2005. I was completely know nothing about `Emacs‘. Thanks to Daniel told me such an excellent Editor and taught me lots of skills of using this great tool. It can perfectly help me do something that I cannot image before. So I will record some useful commands’ keyboard shortcuts for myself to refer. Notice that, all the keyboard shortcuts’ real command names could be found through C-h-k + ‘your keyboard shortcut’.