EmacsUtils

Handy Emacs utilities

I've been using Gnu Emacs since it was publicly available (1985?), and have contributed some packages which are included with Emacs, notably the Allout outliner, icomplete mode, and python-mode's pdbtrack functionality. Like many long-time Emacs users, I have a bunch of custom code, some that's crucial. Here are some that others might find useful. I hope to include more, as time allows.

• multishell.el

Manage interaction with multiple local and remote shell buffers - now in its own repository: https://github.com/kenmanheimer/EmacsMultishell (to ease ELPA maintenance).

• xsel.el

  X copy and paste emacs region from emacs tty sessions, using a shell command.

  If xsel or linux or cygwin equivalent is installed, and DISPLAY is working, use klm:xsel-copy to copy the region to the X clipboard and klm:xsel-paste to paste the contents of the clipboard at point.

  One benefit is that klm:xsel-paste pastes are single units, rather than a sequence of individual keystrokes that constitute regular X pastes to a terminal. This avoids layers of parsing, indenting, auto-paren insertion, and so forth. (You can always do a regular X paste on occasions when you want that processing.)

  NOTE well - ssh has has a little known, severe default X11 forwarding timeout that leads to unexpected failures after ten minutes - yikes! To mitigate it, set ForwardX11Timeout to something larger - up to the unexpected max of 596h, slightly beyond which the number is ignored. See http://b.kl3in.com/2012/01/x11-display-forwarding-fails-after-some-time/ for details.

• pdbtrack.el

  [I've moved my standalone version of pdbtrack aside. I hadn't realized that the version that I derived this code from lacks my source-buffer fallback provisions. It looks like I'm going to have to do some unraveling to reconstruct the best basis.]

  Add sensitivity to comint shells so the source file lines are automatically presented in a separate window when the Python PDB debugger steps to them.

  This is derived from the pdb tracking code, which I originally wrote, and which has been included in (various) official Emacs Python modes. I wanted a version that I could more easily tweak and maintain, independently of the python-mode code.

  It would be nice to eventually generalize this code, to work for things like the node.js debugger. We'll see if I (or anyone) ever gets around to that.