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"I consider myself a beginning Lisper. I’ve been developing my software in Emacs for 8 months now. At first, I was clumsy at it. Emacs can be difficult and daunting. The terminology is different from what I’m used to, the key bindings are different, and there are just so many commands, configurations, and modes. But I’ve persevered and I now find myself quite nimble with key bindings and structured editing. And yet there’s still more to learn.
The subject of what to learn is treated in many online tutorials and printed books. But here, now, I thought I’d share some tips I use to keep the key bindings in my head from being garbage collected..."
"PyHurd is an attempt to create full Python bindings to the GNU/Hurd API. It will include bindings to various GNU/Hurd libraries and will have the ability to create translators in Python.
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"In quite some of the blog entries - past and especially, future - we define key bindings. These are discussed in details in the Emacs documentation; but what about the very useful little subset we need here for defining keybindings? ..."
"In Emacs, the keys can be rebound to call any function one desires.One of the many uses of rebinding is to call frequent functions that are operated on the buffer one is working on. And the key bindings can be local or global depending upon whether the functionality makes sense across all buffers or only to the type of buffers worked on (text, tex etc.).
Peter told you how to quickly set desktop effects in KDE with the press of a button if you’re using KWin. A similar trick is available for GNOME’s Metacity.
You can select from a set of application templates and use some simple quickly commands to create, edit code and GUI, and publish your software for others to use. Quickly's templates are easy to write. So if you are a fan of language foo, you can create a foo-project template. Or if you want to help people making plugins for your killer app, you can make a killer-app-plugin template.