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In the final part of our series on GNU Emacs, we'll checkout tramp mode and eshell. Tramp modes allows you to quickly and easily edit files on a remote system and eshell is a shell written completely in Emacs Lisp. As one viewer suggested, they can be combined for some...

In the second installment of our series on GNU Emacs, we explore using windows and frames, some useful shortcuts, your .emacs.d directory, and show off a highly customized GNU Emacs.

GNU Emacs is a highly customizable text editor that is available for almost every operating system. GNU Emacs has a huge learning curve and as time goes on most Emacs users end up with a highly customized configuration. In addition to editing files, Emacs can check your email and news...

GNUS is a great news reader built into Emacs. I've had some requests to do an episode on how to read mail from a Google Gmail account with it, so here it is. I had the easiest time getting it all to work on Ubuntu 9.10, but as long as...

GNU Nano is one of my favorite "little" text editors. While Nano is small, it does support some fairly advanced features like syntax highlighting, killing and yanking (copy and pasting), buffer support (think tabs), spell checking, and others. In this episode we'll configure a good initial Nano setup, show how...