From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Phillip Lord Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Efficient Emacs usage? Date: 22 Nov 2004 18:18:38 +0000 Organization: School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, U.K. Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1101150361 11526 80.91.229.6 (22 Nov 2004 19:06:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 19:06:01 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 22 20:05:55 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CWJVb-00023c-00 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 20:05:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CWJee-0005II-QH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 14:15:16 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!easynews.net!easynet-isham!easynet-monga!easynet.net!zen.net.uk!demorgan.zen.co.uk!130.88.203.18.MISMATCH!peernews.mcc.ac.uk!cs.man.ac.uk!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: rpc71.cs.man.ac.uk Original-X-Trace: wapping.cs.man.ac.uk 1101147518 1657 130.88.198.228 (22 Nov 2004 18:18:38 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@wapping.cs.man.ac.uk Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 18:18:38 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.93 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:126817 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:22217 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:22217 >>>>> "FCC" == FCC writes: FCC> Hello all, FCC> Having been using Emacs for developing code and writing FCC> articles since 1998 on Windows which gave me enough time to FCC> discover its wealth of features, now I wonder if I am using it FCC> the most productive way possible. FCC> Yesterday, I was browsing the info node Emacs, and I came FCC> across the function find-dired. grep-find is similarly wonderful and useful. Also ido.el which is totally different, but amazing for switching buffers and opening files. ido.el is an add on, I think, or in the CVS version of Emacs. Cheers Phil