I am _so_ in love. Here are some of the ways that I'm using Emacs in my daily life. Share your stories! I'd love to find out how you're using Emacs to do something particularly cool. If you have any .el files
I hope the vi users on the list don't flame me. * GNUS Gnus handles my mail. Remember all of those crossposts that I was getting a little bit annoyed about? I only see one copy of a crosspost now. I also discard all the duplicate mail I receive, which is a good thing because I sometimes have mailing lists set to deliver mail to more than one address because I haven't gotten around to tracking those subscriptions down. =) Gnus is way cool. It has all the features I looked for in mutt, and then some. * BBDB records After using Emacs to store the contact information for people I know, I decided that I wanted to use it to store info on the students in the CS21A-A class for which I'm a teaching assistant. I used psql to extract the information from my online submissions database. I wrote a short Perl script to parse out their names, e-mail addresses and phone numbers (appropriately tagged as Home or Mobile) and generate an Emacs LISP file I then loaded into Emacs and M-x eval-buffer'ed. Now I can hit M-x bbdb, type in a student ID, and get all of my notes on them. This is very useful when getting in touch with students. Am trying to figure out how to put inline ID pictures there. ;) Will settle for having a Picture: field with the filename and being able to view it simply by pressing a key. * Archive support I love being able to browse through archives in dired mode! No more unpacking just to look at a single file. This is really helpful when I'm looking at student submissions. <g> * Image support Just for kicks, I opened a .jpg in Emacs. Beautiful graphics. Beautiful, beautiful graphics. I downloaded another mode that taps into ImageMagic in order to provide zoom in/out. Way, way cool. * Keyboard macros Keyboard macros are a lifesaver. They make boring, repetitive jobs fun and easy. =) * Elisp I _love_ being able to write short snippets of elisp! I definitely want to learn more about elisp. * Grep When you grep files, the results show up in another buffer - ready to be selected! You can press <enter> on a line to have the file brought up in another window, scrolled to the right line. More Emacs stories to follow soon! =) -- Sacha Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 4 BS CS Ateneo geekette interests: emacs, linux, wearables, teaching compsci, making games _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
