Emacs/elfeed discovery
Just a brief post about a today I learned something about emacs experience. Like many of those experiences, the learning was purely accidental. But it’s going to enhance my emacs workflow — in fact, it sparked another one of those Emacs excitement surges. I’m recording it here in large part because I want to remember how to do this, but perhaps someone else will find it useful as well.
I use elfeed to read my RSS feed (and elfeed-org to manage the feed list). I was happily reading through today’s entries just now, when I messed up a keystroke. Suddenly, each of the links in the post I was reading had an initial letter highlighted. It took me a second to realize that if I input the letter highlighted in one of those links, the page linked there would open in my browser. That’s really cool, I thought — much more efficient than what I had been doing — using the regular cursor movement keys to move point to a link that looked interesting.
Unfortunately, I didn’t know what key I had pressed to make that happen. But this is emacs, I thought, as I remembered that there’s an emacs function — view-lossage, bound to <C-h l> — that shows recent keystrokes. Executing this function led me to elfeed-goodies/show-link-hint, which is bound to <M-v>.
So, today I learned about this cool function and key-binding. Here’s hoping that I’ll still remember it tomorrow.
