Emacs

Emacs Keyboard Shortcuts

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Irreal has recently published a post with a reference to the Vernon Grant’s emacs-keyboard-shortcuts README that contains a list of Emacs keyboard shortcuts Vernon uses on a regular basis. …

Reverso Context in Emacs

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If you are an emacser, you are probably already following the Sacha Chua’s blog. If you are not, you should. Sacha maintains an incredible blog on Emacs-related news, upcoming events, Org Mode, …

Using abbrev to Enter Special Characters

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As it’s described in the GNU Emacs Manual, an abbreviation or abbrev is a string of characters that may be expanded to a longer string. The user can insert the abbrev string and find it replaced …

Eshell Aliases, Prompt, And Colors

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Do you use #Emacs to run shells or terminal emulators? Well, you should. With vterm you have a fast alternative to the builtin ansi-term. And if you prefer shells, you’ve got EShell and Shell …

DMS To Decimal Degree Conversions And More

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Working with satellite data I often have to convert a coordinate value or an angle value from the DMS notation (degree@minute’second") to a decimal degree in the floating point number …