June 15th 2026 - Interesting Finds

Most of these came from Karthinks wonderful post Even More Batteries Included with Emacs.

Emacs see definition of words on hover

You can enable dictionary-tooltip-mode and then hover over a word to see its definition.

Emacs using dired with wildcards

We can use dired with wildcards to search for multiple files and directories matching a given criteria.

Example:

M-x dired

~/Desktop/code/*/*/*.js

This will create a dired buffer with all the files ending in .js 2 directories deep inside of the code directory.

Emacs find file at point

We can run M-x find-file-at-point to open the file at point if its a valid file path.

Emacs find all urls and files in the current buffer

We can use M-x ffap-menu to return a list of all the urls and files mentioned in the current buffer. We can then select an item from the list and navigate to it.

Emacs see text changes in buffer

We can use highlight-changes-mode to see text changes that occurred in a buffer after enabling the mode.

Emacs jump to source of key or function definition

We can press s when in a describe key or function help buffer to jump to the source.

Emacs zoom and rotate images

We can press the following when point is on an image to manipulate it:

  • i+ - Zoom in
  • i- - Zoom out
  • ir - Rotate

Emacs render buffer to html

We can use shr-render-buffer to render an html buffer.