The three greatest things you never knew about emacs
Feb 7th, 2009 by Adam
Everyone out there knows that emacs is the superior editor, right? Good! Now – you might have been programming recently and wished emacs was a little more frendy. GUI based editors have tabs, nice programming and documentation features, and little gems like autocompletion. Why, oh why doesn’t emacs have all this? Oh, it does!
- Doxymacs – this package for emacs supports auto inserting comments for C and C++ code (at the beginning of files and before functions). Works great and makes your code beautiful!
- M-/ - its not even a package! This little key-combo will autocomplete words based on the current open buffers. It does a great job on those lengthy variable names.
- tabbar mode – Ever wished you could view your xemacs buffer list as tabs? Viola!
Those are just some of the great features emacs boasts. Whats your favorite?