Functional[Justin]

Here's a handy function which lets you choose a transparent level (0 is fully transparent and 100 is opaque), for the main emacs frame in both focused and unfocused state.(defun...

Did you know you could change the title in the window of a command prompt using the title command? Example:title Poop ha ha Now that's only really useful for making...

This requires you install the Gunwin32 tools or Cygwin, and describes how to build a tags table for the project you're working on, when using emacs to edit the source.First...

Thanks to a commenter in my earlier blog post for pointing me to this way of sending mail that actually does work:http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusMSMTPYou need to download msstp from sourceforge and install...

I've always used this excellent pair of blog posts by Bill Clementson to get lispworks personal working with emacs/slime on windows. Configuring SLIME for 3 Win32 CL ImplementationsUsing LispWorks Personal...

Simple thing, but if you want to find which files in a directory are writable, use this dos command ...dir /a-r-d /s /b/a is to search for attributes. In this...

Here's a nice blog post on this...Silly batch file tricks, redirecting stdout into an evironment variable and %~dp0But just for my own reference the cryptic looking character sequence resolves to...

I use emacs within Cygwin, and often I want to paste a pathname from an explorer window into emacs and use it there. Unfortunately you have to edit it by...