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"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/ .
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.
"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.
RMS: "People are writing as if I had announced my final retirement. This is just a matter of other people maintaining Emacs. [...] This is the fourth time that the Maintainer of GNU Emacs has been someone other than me. Previous maintainers include Joe Arceneaux, Jim Blandy, and Gerd Moellmann."
"Today, the two major surviving branches on the emacs family tree are GNU Emacs, and XEmacs [...] but the one thing I remember that it still somewhat missing in GNU Emacs, is package management [...] This has changed now with
"Just upload to server a new part of article about usage of Emacs with version control systems -- now about usage of Emacs to work with Git. This variant contain information only about git.el package, but in near future i'll extend it with information about emacs-git and some minor modes." -- via http://alexott.blogspot.com/2008/04/using-emacs-with-git.html
"I recently came across the GNU page: A guided tour of Emacs.It is a gem of an introduction to Emacs.Unlike the help distributed with Emacs (tutorial, FAQ, *info* pages), this tour does a good job illustrating the wide variety of Emacs capabilities, and I think it is much more motivating for a newbie than anything else I've seen." via http://trey-jackson.blogspot.com/2008/06/guided-tour-of-emacs.h
"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.
