Tab completion for meta-bang shell commands (Wednesday Emacs blogging)

You probably use M-! to run a quick shell command now and then, when you don't want to be bothered with a full M-x shell. Bu…

Meta-slash performs dabbrev-expand, and you require this knowledge (Wednesday Emacs blogging)

If you don't know this one already, then go to an emacs window right now , open up any source file ( ~/.emacs works fine), n…

ibuffer: If you do not use it, you are insane (Wednesday emacs blogging)

In short, use ibuffer, now ; the relevant .emacs magic: (global-set-key (kbd "C-x C-b") 'ibuffer) (autoload 'ib…

Fix dired under Fink xemacs (Mac annoyance Saturday)

Tonight I literally spent a couple of hours grappling with an uber-annoying bug under XEmacs in current Fink: dired-mode chokes …