bkr

BrowseKillRing - A really sweet mode to let you browse the kill ring for things you have killed before and want to yank. Amazing little mode, I love it.

Now I need something like this for query-replace, so that I can search through my previous query-replaces.

reddit thread

There is a great thread on reddit about what emacs commands you find most useful. Some real gems in there:


jimm 4 points 11 hours ago[-]

Instead of using C-u 9999 C-x e, try C-u 0 C-x e. From the docs: "With numeric prefix arg, repeat macro that many times. Zero argument means repeat until there is an error."


flazz 8 points 18 hours ago[-]
we need an emacs mode to generate a histogram of most used commands and keystrokes!
rgiar 8 points 8 hours ago[-]
google for keyolution.el


petteri 1 point 8 hours ago[-]
M-x comment-or-uncomment-region . I have key binding for this (define-key global-map "\C-z\C-c" 'comment-or-uncomment-region)


MentalSiege 5 points 18 hours ago[-]
mark-whole-buffer is useful. It's on C-x h.

whitespace

Python and emacs (4): Whitespace, tabs, tab-width, visualizing...

A nice article about visualizing whitespace for Python in Emacs.