Emacs easy window switching

Posted: January 10th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: emacs, geek | Tags: , , | No Comments »

I just found out about a another cool emacs plugin: WindMove

This packages allows you to switch windows withouth using C-x o.

WindMove is included with emacs, just include the following code in your .emacs:

(when (fboundp 'windmove-default-keybindings) (windmove-default-keybindings))

More info @ http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WindMove


How to easily encrypt/decrypt files using GPG in Emacs

Posted: June 24th, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: emacs | Tags: , | No Comments »

The latest emacs pretest version (23.0.95) includes  EasyPG making it easier to encrypt/decrypt files almost transparently.

You just have to C-x C-f a file and C-x C-s and EasyPG takes care of the rest for you.


Mac OS X Simple text editor

Posted: February 13th, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

smultron

I usually use emacs for my normal tex(t)’ing/programming tasks, but I often make use of other simpler text editor to do simpler edits over text files. When using my Macbook, I use Smultron.

So far, I think Smultron is an excellent tool for my simple text editing needs.