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Intermediate Emacs Hacking

Issue 117

From Issue #117
January 2004

Jan 01, 2004  By Charles Curley
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Turn Emacs into your editor of choice with this easy customization tool.

Resources

Author's .emacs: www.charlescurley.com/~ccurley/emacs.init.html

Emacs Beginner's HOWTO: www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Emacs-Beginner-HOWTO.html, or possibly already on your computer with the rest of the LDP docs.

Emacs' Built-in Help System: Ctrl-H

Emacs for Vi Users: grok2.tripod.com

“Emacs: the Free Software IDE”, by Charles Curley, LJ June 2002: /article/5765

Emacs Wiki: www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl

fetchmail: www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail

“Getting Started with Emacs”, by Charles Curley, LJ, March 2003

GNU Emacs Home Page: www.fsf.org/software/emacs/emacs.html

GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual: www.gnu.org/manual/elisp-manual-20-2.5/elisp.html

GNU Emacs Tutorial (Old, but Still Useful): www.futureone.com/~sponge/tutorial/emacs/index.html

How do I make common modifications to my Gnu Emacs .emacs file? www.yak.net/fqa/124.html

Procmail: www.procmail.org

Programming in Emacs Lisp: An Introduction, by Robert J. Chassell: www.gnu.org/manual/emacs-lisp-intro/emacs-lisp-intro.html

SpamAssassin: spamassassin.org

Tips—emacs “Nifty ways to get your work done in /the/ editor”: www.portico.org/index.php3?catList=28

“very unofficial .emacs home”, by Ingo Koch: www.dotemacs.de

Charles Curley (www.charlescurley.com) teaches Linux at two Wyoming colleges. He also writes software and articles and books, using open-source software tools such as Emacs. His desktop has been a “Microsoft Free Zone” for more than three years, and he contributed to Sams' Teach Yourself Emacs in 24 Hours (ISBN: 0-672-31594-7).

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