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Color in GNU Emacs and Vim
For those of you who use GNU Emacs or Vim, do you know that you can change the color theme/scheme very easily? Really, take a look at these two pages and look at the varieties that you can get....
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WinMerge
I just upgraded to WinMerge 2.2.2.0 and I can’t be happier. WinMerge is a GUI for comparing and merging files. The new merge mode is very handy (F9) and it even highlights what’s changed within a...
View ArticleNano for Pico Users
I have come to know quite a few Pico die-hards over the years. Their primary reason for sticking with Pico is usually its simplicity. For this, I also think that Pico is hard to beat. But it’s possible...
View ArticleAll but the first few lines of a file
You would think that there must be a utility in Unix like head or tail that would chop off the first few lines of a file and output the rest. Well, I haven’t found it yet. In any case, perl worked. cat...
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Emacs “Hello Kitty” Colour Theme Request
Just saw this at http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs-en/ColorTheme: “Hello Kitty” Colour Theme Request After a discussion on #emacs, it was found that we could attract more women and young children...
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CLCL – The Clipboard Manager
Those of us that use Microsoft Office should be familiar with the concept of a clipboard manager (since it has one built-in for the Office applications). Basically, a clipboard manager lets you...
View ArticleRefTeX Mode in Emacs
In a secret mission, last week I forced myself to write a 20-page document with TeXnicCenter, a Visual-Studio-like text editor for LaTeX. It was a rather painful experience given its current BibTeX...
View ArticleEmacs Local Variables
If you use Emacs to edit your LaTeX files, then you want to know about Local Variables. They are “comments” that you write at the end of a file, say in this example: blah blah % Local variables: %...
View ArticleLong Word Completion
It has been complained to me that I use long variable names in my code, which I think is a defendable practice. Worse, I also use stupidly long “abbreviations” in LaTeX...
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LaTeX Source Specials
As I have hinted in this post about pdfopen, it is possible to do some sort of round-trip LaTeX editing with the right tools. There are two directions to make the round-trip complete. The forward jump...
View ArticleDebugging Bad \hboxes with AUCTeX
When you use AUCTeX to compile a LaTeX document that contains an error, the compilation will fail and AUCTeX will remind you in the minibuffer area: LaTeX errors in `*foo output*'. Use C-c ` to...
View ArticleGoto Last Change in Emacs
From an interesting idea in gnu.emacs.bug… How many times have you found yourself mosying thru a file when you wonder, where the heck was I just editing? Well, the best you can do is hit undo, ^F, and...
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Word Capitalization in Emacs and PowerPoint
One of my favorite keyboard shortcuts in PowerPoint is Shift-F3. It rotates the capitalization of the current word among lowercased, Capitalized and UPPERCASED. Note that you do not have to select the...
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It’s All Text! Add-on for Firefox
It’s All Text! is one of my most-used Firefox add-ons and recently it’s been upgraded to run on 3.0b4. Edit textareas using an external editor, because it’s all text! Right click on a textarea, select...
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