"My proposal was accepted at an IBM conference on best practices! I’m thrilled to have all these opportunities to share what I’m learning and to learn even more from other people...." When: Fri Feb 29 – Fri Feb 29 ; Where: ? ; Who: sacha chua ;

Sacha Chua: «A number of browsers allow you to define quick searches so that you can type keywords into your address bar in order to search predetermined sites. With a little bit of code, you can do this in Emacs, too. In this project, you'll learn how to set up your own keywords to work with w3m and browse-url, so you can use your keywords for browsing both inside and outside Emacs...»

Sacha Chua (Reading Mail with Gnus): "...Yes, you can read mail in Emacs. In fact, there are more than five mail clients to choose from, ranging from simple message readers to complex mail clients that integrate with many other modules. In this chapter, you'll learn how to set up and use Gnus, a feature-rich mail client that comes with Emacs 22.

"People handle large volumes of mail in different ways. Keeping everything in one mailbox can quickly become unmanageable because messages you need to read get lost among messages you don’t need to read. [...] Moving messages by hand is tedious and time-consuming. One way to deal with this is to set up rules that automatically file mail into different groups ..." (by Sacha Chua)

"The greatest single thing about Emacs is it's extensibility. If you think Emacs is missing something, or don't like how something works, you can change it. But that's true of any free software.

"Emacs is a text editor which is far more powerful than most of its users realize. It can be (1) customized extensively to suit one's needs, (2) automated to save time and reduce tedium, and (3) extended to do virtually anything.

"Emacs is a class of text editors that have an extensive set of features and that are popular with computer programmers and other technically proficient computer users. GNU Emacs, a part of the GNU project, is under active development and is the most popular version.

As usual, Sacha teaches us some useful tricks; you can really do anything you like with emacs...

"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 .