Replacing on entiere set of files is hard in Emacs. But I find the correct mumbo-magic procedure, and gifted it to you:

• Call dired to list files in dir, or …

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Okey I love emacs, you are allowed to say I am a nerd. But I use emacs. So I could solve your problems with a Ctrl-Alt-x kung fu combination, …

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So you know I need Emacs on every PC I use.

On windows7 I stick with a linuxVM when possibile, but sometime you need maximum speed, and EmacsWin32 is a good …

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Ops I did it again. Although I repeatedly said I didn't love emacs Lisp, I finally managed to learn it. So I want to share with you my tips, to help entering in …
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Did you know? Emacs supports killing rectangles of text!

Issuing "C-x r k"  (kill-rectangle) will kill a rectangular area of text. This can be very …

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Userful Commands:

1. keep-lines
2. sort-lines

For more similar options, see this "working with lines"

For playing with rectangles of text, see this tip

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Okey, getting emacs working on Windows is a pain, but we deserve a better editor for us(tm).

I havce found a bunch of emacs alternative distributions, and this …

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In Excel you can easily fill in a column with a list of values. Some times also in Emacs you my need to write down a bunch of similar code. The dotimes function …
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Some "new" shiny IDE feature smart multi line editing, for instance for easily copy-past a block of code and then modifying it "live". …
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Sometimes I need a very very fast start on emacs. If you have the same need, put this in your init.el and live happy:

(cua-mode)
(setq select-active-region …

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