If I understand the question correctly, it is not about rectangular regions originally. C-Spc puts a mark at the current position. Wherever your cursor is afterwards, the text between the last mark and the current position is “selected” (you can highlight this by activating transient-mark-mode, but this will also mean that marks have to be … Read more
Just go to Apple Menu -> System Preferences… -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Tab -> Modifier Keys and select Control for Caps Lock.
Another solution is multi-web-mode: https://github.com/fgallina/multi-web-mode which may be more easily configurable than the already mentioned multi-mode. You just configure your preferred modes in your .emacs file like this: (require ‘multi-web-mode) (setq mweb-default-major-mode ‘html-mode) (setq mweb-tags ‘((php-mode “<\\?php\\|<\\? \\|<\\?=” “\\?>”) (js-mode “<script[^>]*>” “</script>”) (css-mode “<style[^>]*>” “</style>”))) (setq mweb-filename-extensions ‘(“php” “htm” “html” “ctp” “phtml” “php4” “php5”)) (multi-web-global-mode … Read more
I use EmacsW32, it works great. EDIT: I now use regular GNU Emacs 24, see below. See its EmacsWiki page for details. To me, the biggest advantage is that: it has a version of emacsclient that starts the Emacs server if no server is running (open all your files in the same Emacs window) it … Read more
Integrating Emacs with Stack Overflow As mentioned you can use markdown-mode. To integrate markdown-mode with Stack Overflow you can use the Firefox plugin It’s All Text which lets you edit textareas with an external editor. Here is how to set it up: Install markdown-mode. If you use Debian or Ubuntu you can install it by … Read more
global-set-key expects an interactive command. (lambda () (interactive) (forward-line 5)) ought to work. By the way, C-h f commandp is a pretty good starting point for errors like that.
I generally prefer opening remote files from a local Emacs instance. While running Emacs on your local machine, opening a remote file over ssh is not much different than opening any other file besides a slightly different syntax. For ssh, you can type C-x C-f. Now, in the minubuffer you want to type /ssh:user@host:/path/to/file (Note … Read more
You might also want to try using windmove which lets you navigate to the window of your choice based on geometry. I have the following in my .emacs file to change windows using C-x arrow-key. (global-set-key (kbd “C-x <up>”) ‘windmove-up) (global-set-key (kbd “C-x <down>”) ‘windmove-down) (global-set-key (kbd “C-x <right>”) ‘windmove-right) (global-set-key (kbd “C-x <left>”) ‘windmove-left)
I know this question is three years old, but it’s something that I’ve also been interested in solving. A Web search directed me to a piece of elisp that makes Emacs use bash for completion in shell mode. It works for me, in any case. Check it out at https://github.com/szermatt/emacs-bash-completion .
Update: Install the move-text package from Marmalade or MELPA to get the following code. Here’s what I use, which works on both regions and individual lines: (defun move-text-internal (arg) (cond ((and mark-active transient-mark-mode) (if (> (point) (mark)) (exchange-point-and-mark)) (let ((column (current-column)) (text (delete-and-extract-region (point) (mark)))) (forward-line arg) (move-to-column column t) (set-mark (point)) (insert text) (exchange-point-and-mark) … Read more