If you'd like to be able to type "emacs file1.txt &" and later type "emacs file2.txt &" and have file1 open in the same emacs frame as file2, here's how. (This was pieced together from various sources on the web. If you've ever tried to figure out how to do something in emacs, you'll know that there's tons of documentation out there, but it ( Read more... )

You can convert your buffer in emacs to HTML using: M-x htmlize-buffer

The default is for it to use CSS with the style names in the header of the HTML. That's fine if you're putting it into a webpage of your own design, but not if you're putting it in a blog post like LiveJournal.

You can set it to use "inline css," instead:
M-x set-variable RET ( Read more... )

Ubuntu doesn't include emacs in the default install.

vi is there, of course.

The most insane thing about Emacs for me as been that by default, it mixes tabs and spaces. Why would anyone ever want that?

Add this to your ~/.emacs file (or ~/Library/Preferences/Aquamacs Emacs/Preferences.el of you're using Aquamacs) to make it never use tab characters:
(setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil) ; no tabs, ever

I've been using ( Read more... )