From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Erik Iverson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature of Emacs? Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:11:47 -0600 Message-ID: <4D41B563.6070004@ccbr.umn.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296152160 28578 80.91.229.12 (27 Jan 2011 18:16:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 18:16:00 +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 19:15:55 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 1PiWNr-0003YQ-AY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:15:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60936 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PiWNp-0000Ah-S6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:15:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42744 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PiWK8-0007rK-IE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:12:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PiWK1-0005Wu-4W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:11:59 -0500 Original-Received: from walleye.ccbr.umn.edu ([128.101.116.11]:3809) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PiWK0-0005WF-Uq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:11:53 -0500 Original-Received: from tadpole.ccbr.umn.edu (tadpole.ccbr.umn.edu [128.101.116.26]) by walleye.ccbr.umn.edu (8.9.3p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA08224; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:11:50 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from iron.ccbr.umn.edu (iron.ccbr.umn.edu [128.101.116.194]) by tadpole.ccbr.umn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA16900; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:11:48 -0600 (CST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090812) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: NMAP syn scan (4) 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:78789 Archived-At: This may only work in 23+, but I enable subword-mode in some buffers to deal with the camelCase naming convention. What this does is lets you quickly navigate within identifiers. M-f and M-b now will move forward and backward within words like the following: aVariableNamedLikeThis ^ ^ ^ ^ There is also glasses-mode that overlays characters within the buffer between the subwords, but I couldn't get used to that. Oh, and also: (mouse-avoidance-mode 'cat-and-mouse) Le Wang wrote: > Hi all, > > If you're like me, you get comfortable in your own Emacs workflow and > just let your fingers do the walking all the time. That's why Emacs is > great. Maybe you can think about your muscle memorized actions and pick > out the single most useful function (whether a part of Emacs or in an > addon package) 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 - http://emacs-session.sourceforge.net/ > > Obviously it jumps to the location of last change in the current buffer. > But the cool thing, is you can invoke it repeatedly to revisit all the > locations in the current buffer where you've made a change. The > function works by analyzing the undo list, and it's light weight > and unobtrusive (unlike highlight-changes-mode). > > Your turn. > > -- > Le