Here a quick heads up on Urdu language support on Emacs-snapshot-gtk (1:20080228-1ubuntu1) on Ubuntu Hardy Heron. Apart from the missing characters and even language direction gets messed up, its good to see some Unicode support but there is a long way yet, I still have to use gedit for editing language files.
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Ruby mode included in Emacs 23 ?
"We've discussed before about wanting to include ruby-mode.el in Emacs 23, but getting the paperwork from the authors has been difficult [...] I'm going to the International Ruby Conference next week, and I'm likely to see them in person..."
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Using Emacs as a LaTeX editor.
"I use Emacs for all text editing, except for LaTeX which I use Texmaker for due to the quick start wizard, and quick build functions. Yesterday, I decided to try to implement these functions in elisp, Emac’s dialect of Lisp..."
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Extending ERC with Emacs Lisp
"ERC is an IRC client written in Emacs Lisp. This makes ERC very easy to extend, customize and otherwise adapt to your personal style. A nice features of the standard ERC distribution is that you can extend the set of commands available on your IRC prompt by writing short Emacs Lisp functions. When you define a function called “erc-cmd-XXX” it instantly becomes available as an IRC command..."
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Automatically Inserting Matching Parentheses for LaTeX in Emacs
"My use of emacs varies, but a good chunk of my time is spent writing in LaTeX for mathematical formulae. AuCTeX simplifies my life quite a bit, and whizzytex makes it awesome. But one feature that would really save me some typing is auto-completion of matching parenthetical symbols..."
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Collaborative editing in Emacs
""Two weeks ago, Michael Albinus sent me a collaborative plugin for Emacs. It can work with the gedit and gvim plugins I hosted on my collaborative editing page. It needs D-Bus support in Emacs, so the version 23.0.60 at least is required..."
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a kind of magic
"Today just a short tip: if you are using emacs and git, I can recommend magit. Magit is a git-mode for emacs, which makes using git convenient and easy to use..."
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js-comint.el - an interactive javascript mode for use with js2-mode.
"...Js-comint.el is a javascript comint mode which lets you run a javascript interpreter from within emacs. It's hosted on http://sourceforge.net/projects/js-comint-el and has a web page which can be found here: http://js-comint-el.sourceforge.net/ ..."
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A Brief Introduction to Emacs psvn
"...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 ..."
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Rails 2.1.2: Security, other fixes
"Rails 2.1.2 includes the same two security fixes that we pushed out for 2.0.x recently [...] As always, you can install with: ..." --
* See also: Rinari: Ruby on Rails Minor Mode for Emacs
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from Vim to Emacs - part 1
"Straight to the point: since mid September I've been using Emacs, trying to evaluate whether I was willing to switch from Vim to it. Yup, that's true, me (user of Vim since the day I've started using GNU/Linux 10 years ago, (not so) active maintainer in Debian of vim and related packages, author of some popular Vim extensions and of vim-addon-manager) it's considering switching to Emacs.
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Mitchell Baker: « We started a conversation a while back about two year product and technology goals. I’d like to return to that discussion...» --
Read more »Elisp Wrapper For Perl Scripts - Xah Lee, 2008-10
"This page shows a example of writing a emacs lisp function that process text on the current region, by calling a external perl script. So that you can use your existing knowledge in a scripting language for text processing as emacs commands..."
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Impressions of emacs on a cell phone
"...You see my goal is to not use the FreeRunner as a cellphone, but as a PDA: bbdb, w3m (mainly offline with a WWWOFFLE cache)... Impressions of emacs on a cellphone: ..." -- via It was only a matter of time
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Emacs 22 Command Index (sorted by Category)
"I could not find an Emacs command reference arranged by category so I wrote a Python script to create one. Here is the original index sorted by command name. Below is the index sorted by category..."
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