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TransparentEmacs

• http://www.futureone.com/~sponge/tutorial/emacs/misc.html
  
• http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EmacsNiftyTricks
  • http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/BreadcrumbForEmacs - quick bookmarks
  
  
• http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/effective-emacs

The key to understanding Emacs is that it's all about efficiency, which includes economy of motion.

• http://www.io.com/~jimm/emacs_tips.html -- many customizations and the .emacs-file
• http://linuxgazette.net/issue01to08/emacs_mar96.html
  
• http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_fun.html
  
• XSteve's Emacs Power User Tips
  
  
• http://www.zafar.se/bkz/Articles/EmacsTips
  
  
• 9 Tips for the aspiring Emacs playboy
  
  
• http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2009/06/search-and-replace-in-files.html
  
• http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2009/06/jumping-back-to-past-locations.html
  • C-x C-SPC (the default key binding for pop-global-mark)
  • http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Global-Mark-Ring.html
  • http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Mark-Ring.html
    • Each buffer has its own mark ring. All editing commands use the current buffer's mark ring. In particular, C-u C-<SPC> always stays in the same buffer.
  
  
• http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2009/07/keeping-related-buffers-together-with.html
  • elscreen
  • ftp://ftp.morishima.net/pub/morishima.net/naoto/ElScreen/ - download
    
  
  
• michaelw's Emacs Hackery -- lot's of interesting packages

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• Emacs - IDEverything

IDO - interactively do things

working with files and buffers at hyperspeed.

• ido.el
  • http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InteractivelyDoThings
    
  
  
• What You Can Learn From ido.el - screencast by StuartHalloway
  • http://blog.thinkrelevance.com/2008/5/14/what-you-can-learn-from-ido-el
    • http://blog.thinkrelevance.com/2008/5/1/rich-consistency

Shortcuts

• http://www.engr.uvic.ca/~dastone/emacs-keys.html
• http://sean.wenzel.net/docs/emacs/quick_reference/
• Emacs visual reference - quite cool
• http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2009/07/keyboard-shortcuts.html

Project Managemnet

• http://cedet.sourceforge.net/ede.shtml
  • C# Code Completion in emacs - a look at Cedet, semantic, and CSDE
  • A Gentle introduction to Cedet
  • http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2010/09/interview-with-eric-ludlam-cedet.html
  
  
• http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs-en/ProjectSettings
  
  
• http://lispservice.posterous.com/code-project-management-in-emacs
  • http://lispservice.posterous.com/code-project-management-in-emacs-part-2
  • http://lispservice.posterous.com/code-project-management-in-emacs-part-3-0
    

Speedbar

• http://cedet.sourceforge.net/speedbar.shtml
• http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/SpeedBar

Tags

ctags - vi
etags -emacs
used for nvigating source-code

• http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EmacsTags
• http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/brown/172/tools/etags.html
• http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Tags.html
• http://www.coverfire.com/archives/2004/06/24/emacs-source-code-navigation/
• http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs-en/BuildTags

Remote Files - FTP\SFTP - TRAMP-mode

Customizing

• DotEmacsCustomizations
• http://orestis.gr/en/blog/2008/02/28/emacs-goals/
• http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki?ColorTheme
  • http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~maverick/GNUEmacsColorThemeTest/index-el.html

interesting packages

• http://cedet.sourceforge.net/ - Collection of Emacs Development Environment Tools
  • http://ecb.sourceforge.net/ - emacs code browser
  
  
• light-symbol.el
  
• http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/download/show-wspace.el
  
• http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/TabBarMode
  
• http://www.emacsblog.org/2007/02/22/maximize-on-startup-part-2/ - maxframe

Paredit

• http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/ParEdit
• http://mumble.net/~campbell/emacs/paredit.el
• http://mumble.net/~campbell/emacs/paredit.html - commands
• http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PareditCheatsheet
  
  
• http://www.slideshare.net/mudphone/paredit-preso
  
• http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/scala/paredit-mode

Subversion

• http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs-en/SubVersion
• http://asdf.blogs.com/asdf/2003/05/fun_with_vcsvne.html

Auto-Completion-Mode

• http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AutoComplete
• http://cx4a.org/software/auto-complete/
• https://github.com/purcell/ac-slime slime completion source for Clojure

Organizer-modes

• todo-mode - no good documentation, I cannot trust that one... ;-|
• EmacsOrgMode
  • http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6875606560666582845
• http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/PlannerMode

Diary

• Emacs and Google Calendars
• http://sunsite.univie.ac.at/textbooks/emacs/emacs_33.html
• http://www.nongnu.org/emacsdoc-fr/manuel/diary.html

SQL-Mode

• http://lispy.wordpress.com/2007/06/28/replacing-ms-sql-enterprise-manager-with-emacs/
• http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki?SqlMode
• http://blog.zednick.name/2008/06/18/emacs-sql-mode-emacs-as-a-database-client/

Encodings, UTF8, etc.

• http://linuxtnt.wordpress.com/2007/07/19/making-emacs-understand-utf8-encoding/
• http://blog.jonnay.net/archives/820-Emacs-and-UTF-8-Encoding.html
• http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/UnicodeEncoding