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[BEH] How to make dired open several files in the background

nospam@example.com (Rodrigo Lazo) — Mon, 19 May 2008 06:35:22 +0200

You will need:

dired-x.el

The question

Is there some keybinding or command in Dired that open in background all marked files?

The solution

First, mark all the files you will want to open and then use 'C-u F'

Here is the link of the thread

[BEH] How to display info help inside a box

nospam@example.com (Rodrigo Lazo) — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:12:50 +0200

If you have ever read the emacs-help mailing list, I'm sure you have seen this picture:

That ASCII-art box is great for many things, specially when used to describe a function, variable or key. The necesary package is boxquote. And to have all its power at your fingertips, a snippet for your .emacs


;;;_. boxquote

(require 'boxquote)

(global-set-key (kbd "C-c b y")   'boxquote-yank)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c b r")   'boxquote-region)         
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c b u")   'boxquote-unbox-region)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c b t")   'boxquote-title)          
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c b i")   'boxquote-insert-file) 
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c b k")   'boxquote-kill) 
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c b s")   'boxquote-shell-command)
 
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c b b")   'boxquote-buffer)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c b p")   'boxquote-paragraph) 
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c b n")   'boxquote-narrow-to-boxquote)

(global-set-key (kbd "C-c b w")   'boxquote-where-is) 
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c b d f") 'boxquote-describe-function)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c b d k") 'boxquote-describe-key)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c b d v") 'boxquote-describe-variable)

Here is the link to the gmane archive of the original message.

BEH: eshell and su

nospam@example.com (Rodrigo Lazo) — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:01:08 +0200

With this entry a new category for emacs related posts will begin here. Bits from emacs.help are tips and tricks found while reading the emacs.help mailing list

Well, this tips is how to use su inside eshell

From the post: "...Doing su or sudo su does not work like you expect. This works under the normal shell (M-x shell). I am su:ing quite much ..." If you have tried, using su inside eshell is quite paintful, and doesn't work very well. But, come on, there should be a way of doing it, right?

From the reply: "...Tramp 2.1 supports it. Try "cd/sudo::" in eshell..." And that's it! you have a fully functional 'suded' eshell with completition available.