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"Emacs-22+ doesn't support Xft fonts, hence the look and feel of emacs on X-Windows is not that good. But development is going on to provide this feature in emacs. The emacs-unicode-2 branch for emacs has this feature, hopefully this will get integrated to emacs-23.
I followed the following steps to compile emacs unicode from CVS..."
"Many programs have start-up settings, which they read from a configuration file or from some database. Emacs is no exception: when it starts, it reads a file called ".emacs" from your home directory. However, the big difference is that .emacs does not consists of simple "key=value"-pairs. Instead, your .emacs is an Emacs-Lisp (elisp) program itself.
"I've been reading lots of blogs and opinions about emacs the last few days. What strikes me is all of these people who brag about how large their .emacs files have become. So let me make this very clear: If your .emacs file is longer than a page YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG. Why?
"I recently came across the GNU page: A guided tour of Emacs.It is a gem of an introduction to Emacs.Unlike the help distributed with Emacs (tutorial, FAQ, *info* pages), this tour does a good job illustrating the wide variety of Emacs capabilities, and I think it is much more motivating for a newbie than anything else I've seen." via http://trey-jackson.blogspot.com/2008/06/guided-tour-of-emacs.h
Emacs is an absolutely wonderful text editor for designers, and it can speed up development time with a series of helpful shortcuts, even for a Textmate diehard. Unfortunately, Emacs can have a steep learning curve, so I figured I would provide a basic introduction for using Emacs as a web development environment.
"...Here are 6 general emacs tips i felt that's the most important in emacs productivity, among all other emacs tips and tricks of my decade-long experience. If you use emacs only occasionally, these tips may not be very meaningful because they are general and does not solve any specific problems.
"One nice feature of Emacs, that is as old as Emacs itself, are buffers. Most Emacs users like them because you can have multiple buffers open at once and work on many things at once. And for the record, I'm actually a big fan of the Emacs buffer menu..."
"...As the resident Emacs guru, I was recently asked by a coworker to write up some tips on using the Emacs psvn mode for doing integrated work on Subversion repositories and Trac. You can download the latest copy here: psvn.el ..."