Tag: Emacs

Hide uninteresting files in dired-mode

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I just found a neat trick today i.e hiding uninteresting(temporary files like backup or autosave files, all files of a particular extension or a particular set of files which match a regexp) files in dired-mode using dired-x. Here’s how I did it in my .emacs :-

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Best Way To Transliterate Unicode to ASCII? Python Help Needed With Solution.

For creating audio-books I use a text-to-speech engine. One problem is that the application dies on Unicode text. The documents that I encode are too long to correct manually so I want it automated. The correction isn’t as simple as removing all Unicode text though because if possible I don’t want to lose the meaning of the character when it is easily converted to ASCII.

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Easily insert Unicode mathematical Fraktur characters

fraktur-mode: 

;; Transliterate ASCII a-z and A-Z to their Unicode mathematical
;; Fraktur equivalent.  Eszett and umlaut aren't used because the Unicode
;; specification defines these characters only as a mathematical symbol via
;; `http://www.unicode.org/faq/ligature_digraph.html'.

outorg Lets You Convert Source-Code Buffers Temporarily To Org-Mode For Comment Editing

outorg lets you convert source-code buffers temporarily to org-mode for comment editing.

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