ERC Flipping Buffers On the subject of simple keybinds, here's another one: Are you on IRC? Do you use ERC in Emacs as your client? Well, if so, you're in luck! If you're like me, you probably are in a lot of channels and going through all of your channels can be a little bit of a pain. No, it's not because Emacs is a pain, but flipping through them quickly in the same buffer/window is kinda a drag.
My Universal Keybind Okay, I'm finally getting around to writing this because so many people have asked me about it: I have a "universal keybind" set. I stole it from Prot, so you can thank him. He uses C-z, last I checked, but I changed it to C-q, and I'll explain why:
So, why C-q? And what the heck are you talking about? I'm glad you asked! Okay: There's a lot of commands I use in Emacs for org mode and other things which, by default, are kinda all over the place.
EWW No! Not ewwwwwwwww! But EWW (or eww). It's the text browser which comes in Emacs, and it's fantastic for quickly reading articles and doing even more than that.
Recently, I started using it every day. Here's a quick summary of how I work:
I am reading something in Safari (usually I get it from RSS). I see a wall of text and I want to send it to Emacs instead for better viewing.
I figured out a way to explain it Earlier today, I figured out how to explain my use of tabs in Emacs to Emacs users who don't use them and wonder why they're useful. It's simple: Think of tabs as different kinds of desktops. They can be full screen desktops, or split into different buffers. That's one way of looking at it. So you end up with a set of Emacs "desktops" which are even saved when you restart Emacs.