The improvements in GNOME 2.20 include: Improved support for right-to-left languages; desktop search integrated into the file chooser dialog; convenient new features in the Evolution email and calendar client; enhanced browsing of image collections; simplified system preferences; efficient power management and incredibly accurate laptop battery monitoring.

"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..."

"...A nifty little trick is to use tramp, an emacs package for transparent remote editing of files using a secure protocol like ssh. You then use tramp to ssh into localhost as root, and modify the target file..."

"php-mode is responsible for syntax highlighting, indentation, and other major PHP-specific modifications to your editing environment. There are a number of PHP modes available for Emacs. In this project, you’ll learn how to set up the php-mode available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/php-mode/ .

"This mode acts as a graphical user interface to GDB and is part of the recently released Emacs 22 ..."

"There are tens or hundreds useful emacs packages on the web that are not bundled with emacs. Some are for special purposes such as making emacs act as a mp3 player, some others are written by third-parties, others are in the process of being bundled with the next release of emacs.

"...Here are two examples of what a modern Emacs might look like, one editing Python code (with ECB, Org mode agenda and integrated interpreter), one editing reST documentation (with occur-mode)..."

"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?

"User can use several packages to work with Darcs. The darcsum package (available from author's site) implements native support for Darcs, reflecting it ideology. Besides this, there are also Darcs support modules for VC (described in Work with VC) and for DVC (described in Work DVC) packages..." -- via http://alexott.blogspot.com/2008/04/another-part-of-article-now-about-em...