To get the Emacs key bindings (especially, Ctrl-a to go to beginning of line, Ctrl-e to end of line) systemwide, e.g. in Firefox, you use:
gconf-editor
and change the setting desktop → gnome → interface → gtk_key_theme from “Default” to “Emacs”.
I will have to use MS Windows for my new job, at least some of the time. I’ll put related posts in a new “MS Windows” category.
If you use R, you most likely want ESS (Emacs Speaks Statistics) for your GNU Emacs. If you use LaTeX, you will also want AucTeX.
I highly recommend you [...]
Aside: I just discovered the very useful Emacs regex builder tool. Type M-x regexp-builder.
I wanted a regular expression to match the pattern of mutt mail edit buffers, to apply mail-mode, but I did not want to match the muttrc and mutt.hooks files I have.
Mail edit buffers get a pattern that starts with “mutt”, followed by [...]
You know what I mean … that loud loud beep that almost knocks you out whenever you type a non-available keyboard shortcut in Emacs.
For immediate relief (this will not persist through a reboot):
sudo modprobe -r pcspkr
For permanent relief, edit the file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and add the line:
blacklist pcspkr
Addendum
On my Lenovo Thinkpad X41, there was still an [...]
I’ve switched from XEmacs to Emacs, about a month back. I like it much better. On Xubuntu, many more things work “out of the box” (for example the Noweb mode for Sweave). X clipboard contents are immediately available for yanking!
One thing that’s always annoyed me in both XEmacs and Emacs was the buffer switching [...]