Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature of Emacs?

[Erik Iverson]

This may only work in 23+, but I enable subword-mode in
some buffers to deal with the camelCase naming convention.

What this does is lets you quickly navigate within identifiers.
M-f and M-b now will move forward and backward within words like
the following:

aVariableNamedLikeThis
 ^       ^    ^   ^

There is also glasses-mode that overlays characters within the
buffer between the subwords, but I couldn't get used to that.

Oh, and also:

  (mouse-avoidance-mode 'cat-and-mouse)

Le Wang wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> If you're like me, you get comfortable in your own Emacs workflow and 
> just let your fingers do the walking all the time.  That's why Emacs is 
> great.  Maybe you can think about your muscle memorized actions and pick 
> out the single most useful function (whether a part of Emacs or in an 
> addon package) that you don't think is well publicized and share it with us?
>
> I'll get the ball rolling: C-x C-/ `session-jump-to-last-change' defined 
> in session.el - http://emacs-session.sourceforge.net/
>
> Obviously it jumps to the location of last change in the current buffer. 
>  But the cool thing, is you can invoke it repeatedly to revisit all the 
> locations in the current buffer where you've made a change.  The 
> function works by analyzing the undo list, and it's light weight 
> and unobtrusive (unlike highlight-changes-mode).
>
> Your turn. 
>
> --
> Le