Consolidating Widely used Powerful emacs "features"

Consolidating Widely used Powerful emacs "features"

[Sanjeev Kumar.S]

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Hi,

Every once in a while we come across some emacs feature, which after
using for a few days, we wonder how we got along without this ?
This thread is to list those features that is very useful when using and
navigating through anything on the system using emacs.
I thought I was a power user in emacs, but after seeing ido.el recently
I realized how ignorant I had been all these days, which prompted me 
to start this list so that we can share our "discoveries".
Please do list features even if they are included in emacs as good ones
may be included later in emacs but some continue to be ignorant about
it. Case at point: bs.el. 


1) ido.el, isearchb, iswitchb ( amazing navigational tools, you've got to
                                            try it to appreciate it)
2) xcscope.el ( not cscope.el which I was using for a long time :( , this 
                        one with its colors and navigational beauty brings a
                        tear why nobody told you about this ).
3) tabbar.el ( Thank you for the bells & whistles but most deal with
                      only buffers 95% of the time. no ? )
4) bs.el ( the default buffer showing in emacs is good, but this is more
               powerful ).
5) color-theme.el  ( Finally what everyone wants at the end of the 
                               day :variety )
6) session.el ( No matter how deep you are in your project, no matter
                      how long a break you take, you're back in business in a 
                      jiffy with this. )
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Sanjeev.

Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenko_a@3g.ua> wrote: I think that use emacs from Cygwin is not pretty, then naive build form 
MinGW or MSVC (for GNU Emacs available build 
http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/windows/), especially this helpful if 
you use Emacs not only with Cygwin utils.

But for some task it good. For example use remote ssh connection to 
Windows with Emacs!


       
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Re: Consolidating Widely used Powerful emacs "features"

[David Kastrup]

"Sanjeev Kumar.S" <sanjeevfiles@yahoo.com> writes:

> Every once in a while we come across some emacs feature, which after
> using for a few days, we wonder how we got along without this ?

Of course I am utterly biased as author of those features, but I'd give
everybody writing LaTeX the advice to check out a recent AUCTeX version
with preview-latex.

And I'd recommend users of Emacs 22 (and later) to reread the section

(info "(emacs) Regexp Replace")

I am pretty much the offending party for the stuff after half a page
down, and it comes in quite handy for text manipulations.  Computed
replacements are quite a powerful tool that have become available only
recently.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Re: Consolidating Widely used Powerful emacs "features"

[Tom Horsley]

On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:29:45 -0800, Sanjeev Kumar.S wrote:

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dabbrev - can't live without it (but I sure wish there was
a combination of settings I could use to make it search
in a case-insensitive fashion, but return possible matches
in a case sensitive fashion so I wouldn't keep getting
screwed up in all those stoopid X programs that use
littleName and LittleName in the same file for different
things :-).