boxes/pages/editors-emacs.md

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title: Editor Integration - Emacs
permalink: editors-emacs.html
created_at: 1999-04-06
last_modified_at: 2014-12-23 22:50:00 +0100
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# Integration with Emacs

<span class="atmention">[@zerotao](https://github.com/zerotao)</span> kindly provided the following information on
integrating *boxes* with Emacs:

The simple interface (only a single box style, but easy):

```lisp
(defun boxes-create ()
    (interactive)
    (shell-command-on-region (region-beginning) (region-end) "boxes -d c-cmt2" nil 1 nil))

(defun boxes-remove ()
    (interactive)
    (shell-command-on-region (region-beginning) (region-end) "boxes -r -d c-cmt2" nil 1 nil))
```

<span class="atmention">[@zerotao](https://github.com/zerotao)</span> also wrote a
[*boxes* mode for Emacs](https://github.com/{{ site.github }}/blob/master/doc/boxes.el). Remember to update its design
list when you add new designs to your config file.