The YASnippet package for Emacs has some pretty awesome power for the developer, especially when you utilize the power of Emacs Lisp.
YASnippet was inspired by TextMate, which was inspired by Emacs, in a highly-out-of-equilibrium whirlwind of self-referential creativity.
The screencast above uses a set of snippets I originally took from this [...]
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One of the things that makes daily Emacs use so enjoyable is the availability of brilliant add-ons designed to make you work faster.
Emacs with ido-mode fuzzy matching (or flex matching) makes it incredibly quick to navigate the file system using only the keyboard. But it does far more than that, allowing the emacs [...]
Emacs file and directory browsing
Emacs has Dired, a great method for browsing directories; especially in combination with ido-mode, I prefer it to Windows Explorer, OS X Finder, Gnome Nautilus, or anything else I’ve used over the decades to browse file systems. You can quickly begin entering paths, and Dired helps you with directory and [...]