In this weeks segment on Emacs wizardry let’s learn some of the basic commands for working with regions of text so you can move around your Emacs region faster than Blackberry’s are forgotten about. Keystrokes Command Name Action C-@ or C-SPACE set-mark-command Mark the beginning (or end) of a region. C-x C-x exchange-point-and-mark Exchange location … Read more
Here’s a great tutorial on getting started with Emacs Org Mode by Sacha Chua.
Here is how you can compile the mother of all editors on Ubuntu 10.04 from source: 1. Obtain the source archive for Emacs from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/ 2. Open a Terminal in Ubuntu and type: A. sudo apt-get install build-essential libxpm-dev libgif-dev libtiff4-dev B. This will install the necessary packages to compile Emacs. 3. Extract the Emacs … Read more