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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... Watch this screencast

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. Watch this screencast

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... Watch this screencast

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... Watch this screencast

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... Watch this screencast

The classic Gnu Emacs text editor is an incredibly powerful piece of software that has been used by thousands of programmers over the last few decades. Many alpha geeks have recently been giving Emacs a second look as well. Emacs Lisp expert Phil Hagelberg prepared the script and accompanying code... Watch this screencast