This minor mode provides live-editing of CSS and transpile-to-CSS languages via skewer. skewer-css works for many cases, but if you're dealing with multiple stylesheets and involved cascading (a.k.a. "legacy code"), it isn't so useful. What you see while live-editing is not what you see when you refresh, since skewer-css puts the updated CSS in new style tags, thus changing their specificity. skewer-css also doesn't work with Less, SCSS, or any of the lesser-known compile-to-CSS languages - just vanilla CSS (though there is the skewer-less package, if you run Less's in-browser JS version for development). Enter this minor mode. It refreshes stylesheets after saves by adding or updating a query string to the relevant link tags in the browser. Thus, what you see on a fresh pageload is always exactly what you see while live-editing. ; Setup Install from MELPA, then put the following somewhere in your init file: (add-hook 'css-mode-hook 'skewer-reload-stylesheets-start-editing) If you're live-editing Less, SCSS, or similar, add `skewer-reload-stylesheets-start-editing' to the appropriate hook variable, then set `skewer-reload-css-compile-command' to your transpile command: (setq skewer-reload-stylesheets-compile-command "gulp css") This variable is best set in .dir-locals.el, so it can be set correctly per-project. ; Usage Open a browser window for the URL whose stylesheets you want to live-edit. Skewer that window. In emacs, open the stylesheet(s) you want to live-edit. Make some changes in the stylesheet and save it. The updates will immediately be reflected in the skewered windows. and there you are - cross-browser live-editing for arbitrarily complex stylesheets. Note that browser plugins like [Custom Javascript for Websites](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/custom-javascript-for-web/poakhlngfciodnhlhhgnaaelnpjljija?hl=en) make it easy to auto-skewer URLs on pageload, so you don't have to manually re-skewer after every refresh. Key bindings: * C-x C-r -- `skewer-reload-stylesheets-reload-buffer` Note that this keybinding is deprecated, as current usage reloads stylesheets with an after-save-hook, so there is no need for a custom keybinding.