u/Eldrikneeds to learn rust-langin r/vim • Recommends
I'm a vim user and I was shocked and amazed at this emacs showcase video. I'm respecting emacs now at a whole new level.
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Emacs Rocks! Episode 13: multiple-cursors
emacsrocks
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- Recommended by 2 people: 1 on Hacker News and 1 in engineering communities.
- A classic. People kept recommending it from 2016 to 2026.
Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.
126K views14 years ago2 recommendations
Tools and practiceVim, Emacs and editors
Emacs Rocks demonstrates how to use the multiple-cursors package in Emacs to edit text in multiple places simultaneously.
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2 people recommend thisWhat people say. Recommended as a classic demonstration of the power and efficiency of multiple cursors in Emacs.
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wilkystyleon Hacker News • Recommends
On “Neovim 0.12.0”
dot repeat is the wrong comparison. A closer one would be macros, but even then a good multiple cursors implementation is often faster, more intuitive, and requires less cognitive overhead. One of the better examples of the usefulness of multiple cursors is from Emacs Rocks (link goes to 0:23): link to this video
u/Chrisdone2in r/haskell • Mentions
On “CS Syd - Cursors, Part 1: Introduction with the List Cursor”
It’s a common feature of editors. See e.g. SublimeText or Emacs; you select many things at once (lines or symbols) and perform editing operations all at once. It’s like a more user friendly keyboard macro. Demo video: link to this video
pmoriartyon Hacker News • Mentions
On “Big things to expect from Emacs 25”
…Sublime that's allegedly "much quicker"? Can you give an example (including exactly which keys you press and exactly what it does in response)? Or can you at least show a video demonstrating this navigation? As for multiple cursors, both vim and emacs have had them for years.12345 1 - link 2 - link 3 - link 4 - link 5 - link to this video…
bjolion Hacker News • Mentions
On “Julia as a CLI Calculator”
I have all commands I don't remember bound to leader keys. When in calc I have leader key m and then which-key pops up everything I have stored. Other than that, I use scratch in elisp mode and eval. Not as fluent as magnars, but this is a good example of what I mean (towards the end): link to this video
u/eanatin r/emacs • Mentions
What is this minor mode that lists predictions in the minibuffer?
Hi, I try to extend my emacs nowadays, and I found a tempting feature relating to the minibuffer on this youtube movie: (see 3:22)
link to this video
He typed some heading letters and got a list of predictions after it. How did he do this? I searched around for an hour, and I found candidates: "icicle" and "ido". I tried those, but that wasn't what I wanted.