"...The emacs-starter-kit is a set of base configuration for Emacs. It contains a bnumber of useful elisp libraries, with a slight focus on dynamic languages. To install it, perform the following steps..."

"emacs starter kit comes up with beginner friendly defaults and makes emacs learning much pain less. It sets some good default settings to get started..."

"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?

"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.

"In this series of posts I will guide you, the humble reader, through the install procedure to get a development environment for Ioke up and running [...] These instructions are written for a non-expert who might not have too much experience with compiling things, using Git or Emacs..."

"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..."

"...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.

«Next person to watch the Emacs Starter Kit on Github gets to be #1024: http://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit It could be you!»

"...Emacs is a text editor. And it’s a lot more — sometimes too much. I know of a number of Emacs users who practically live in the editor. As I pointed out in a previous post, some users go a little overboard with the way in which they use Emacs — as a personal information manager, as a mail client, and even as a Web browser.