Shells like KornShell, Bash, Zsh, and Fish offer command-line editing; Emacs-style editing is recommended. Have you used the Linux terminal and wished there was a way you could go back to ...

Cruise along the learning curve for Emacs text editing with these basic commands. Emacs is a LISP interpreter that functions as a text editor in Linux, distributed by the Free Software Association ...

Inspired by hictio's thread about changing the X cursor shape in emacs, I'm going to ask a question that's been bugging me for a while: is there a non-painful way to make it so that X will always ...

Emacs will put in the comment delimiter at the end of the line and move the cursor to the appropriate place to enter the comment. That will be the end of the line for C++-style comments, but between ...

Emacs drove me to learn ANSI escape codes so that my cursor wouldn't blink; and now it farks everything up and doesn't listen to my ANSI codes.]), but it doesn't seem to change anything.

It is no secret that I have a few things permanently burned into my neurons: the 1802 instruction set, the commands for WordStar, and the commands for emacs. There was a time when emacs was almost … ...

It is said that Emacs, that versatile toolbox for working with text, is more than merely a text editor—it's a lifestyle. That's not just hyperbole. In this article, I show you how to turn Emacs into a ...

Yeah, the headline makes it sound like the eggs are on their deathbed. But no, easter eggs (in software jargon) are little presents or surprises that developers have slipped into an application or ...