Re: How to Write grep in Emacs Lisp (tutorial)

2011-02-09 Thread Tassilo Horn
Xah Lee writes: >> You can rely on shell globbing, so that grep gets a list of all files in >> all subdirectories.  For example, I can grep all header files of the >> linux kernel using >> >>   % grep FOO /usr/src/linux/**/*.h > > say, i want to search in the dir > ~/web/xahlee_org/ > > but no mo

Re: Emacs Form Feed (^L) Display Suggestion and Tips

2010-06-25 Thread Tassilo Horn
Xah Lee writes: > Tassilo, i use google groups to read news, so i don't see any form > feed. Don't think i can see them in any or most web based interface. Real men don't use web interfaces. ;-) > Just checked gmane.org it also doesn't show. With google group, if you > view the message raw, it'

Re: Emacs Form Feed (^L) Display Suggestion and Tips

2010-06-24 Thread Tassilo Horn
Xah Lee writes: Hi Xah, > also, besides emacs elisp, does anyone see the form feed char in other > lang source code? It's quite often used in messages in newsgroups and mailing lists. The Gnus news- and mailreader creates nice "Next/Previous page" buttons from them and hides the next/previous

Re: a look at the browser scene & emacs

2009-02-26 Thread Tassilo Horn
Xah Lee writes: Hi Xah, > is the suggestion of using modern standard shortcut set of X C V for > Cut, Copy, Paste, of which Linux uses, means it is turning emacs to a > fancy Notepad clone? The functionality stays the same, but IMO it would confuse most users. Killing is not cutting, yanking is