From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Deniz Dogan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature of Emacs? Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:29:50 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296120745 6636 80.91.229.12 (27 Jan 2011 09:32:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:32:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Le Wang Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 27 10:32:21 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PiODA-0005aW-05 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:32:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43509 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PiOD8-0002BP-Qx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 04:32:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50831 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PiOBL-0001z3-0P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 04:30:24 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PiOBK-0001us-3o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 04:30:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-iy0-f169.google.com ([209.85.210.169]:49157) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PiOBJ-0001uc-Td for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 04:30:22 -0500 Original-Received: by iyj17 with SMTP id 17so1514544iyj.0 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 01:30:21 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=b3WBSoaPg/a5V3g02g+90zQdAT/ZWDMe3Nl1y9dDDMw=; b=SZM3QMgymY2InA9Q1RT8DG8PYJrUSkNCBFetCOwKYHomYk3dmVYoHfc1um2x+Ibfoo sfk361/x5/Qc0sf6G5qzufaIgDx4EtAGQrzMhr+lsMRqlGi5dQ+/cnrZdrvukYAT3wsp e4/qSdjqlslbFAAX7nVMEXkq9IE8FFGP6qax4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=XoVQMW0ptg3KvcpetE54/L3DjS+1XfOTmmuitLf+nB4MC9783Avo7vrWS6nV6PqlzL yg2TtdJFLcJpBsjRP7b6NvDQpwbQAFUbPtPzrQ2h/ypJ70bIZaldfCeY7L4D7p78vpbD wl+fNh9Z9ct+I0ydvOBtkiy1L1+SCqd1n1hc0= Original-Received: by 10.231.13.138 with SMTP id c10mr616462iba.97.1296120621092; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 01:30:21 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.231.32.197 with HTTP; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 01:29:50 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:78782 Archived-At: 2011/1/27 Le Wang : > Hi all, > If you're like me, you get comfortable in your own Emacs workflow and jus= t > let your fingers do the walking all the time. =A0That's why Emacs is grea= t. > =A0Maybe you can think about your muscle memorized actions and pick out t= he > single most useful function (whether a part of Emacs or in an addon packa= ge) > that you don't think is well publicized and share it with us? > > I'll get the ball rolling: C-x C-/ `session-jump-to-last-change' defined = in > session.el -=A0http://emacs-session.sourceforge.net/ > Obviously it jumps to the location of last change in the current buffer. > =A0But the cool thing, is you can invoke it repeatedly to revisit all the > locations in the current buffer where you've made a change. =A0The functi= on > works by analyzing the undo list, and it's light weight and=A0unobtrusive > (unlike highlight-changes-mode). > Your turn. > -- > Le > I get along just fine without many external packages. The most extreme thing I have is probably the binding of M-n and M-p to forward-paragraph and backward-paragraph respectively. Extremely useful. :) --=20 Deniz Dogan