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Weekly Emacs tip #3: Automatically balance your delimiters with electric-pair-mode

This week’s tip is about balancing delimiters like parentheses, brackets, quotes, etc. The built-in electric-pair-mode does the following then enabled (copied from the manual, emphasis mine): Electric Pair mode, a global minor mode, provides a way to easily insert matching delimiters: parentheses, braces, brackets, etc. Whenever you insert an opening delimiter, the matching closing delimiter […]

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Weekly Emacs tip #2: using Tramp for sudo, locally and remote

Tramp is a built-in Emacs “package” that allows you to edit files on remote servers with your local Emacs instance. But it doesn’t only do that, it can also be used to edit files as root via sudo. To achieve this use C-x C-f as you normally would to open a file. However, instead of […]

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