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Emacs: mark and register basics
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Video overview on how to use the mark and registers in Emacs to select or edit text efficiently, as well as to quickly jump to points of interest across files/buffers. I also mention bookmarks, which are functionally the same as registers. Some basic configurations: ;; Make Emacs repeat the C-u C-SPC command (`set-mark-command') by ;; following it up with another C-SPC. It is faster to type ;; C-u C-SPC, C-SPC, C-SPC, than C-u C-SPC, C-u C-SPC, C-u C-SPC... (setq set-mark-command-repeat-pop t) ;; By default, the built-in `savehist-mode' only keeps a record of ;; minibuffer histories. This is helpful as it surfaces the most ;; recently selected items to the top, allowing you to access them again ;; very quickly. With the variable `savehist-additional-variables' we ;; can make `savehist-mode' keep a record of any variable we want, so ;; that it persists between Emacs sessions. I do this to store the ;; `kill-ring' and the `register-alist'. (setq savehist-additional-variables '(register-alist kill-ring)) (savehist-mode 1) ;; I want Emacs to write the list of bookmarks to the `bookmark-file' ;; as soon as I set a new bookmark. The default behaviour of Emacs is ;; to write to the disk a…
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Protesilaos Stavrou
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