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#29 GNU Emacs Part 3

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 very powerful remote editing.

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#28 GNU Emacs Part 2

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.

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#27 GNU Emacs Part 1

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 groups, be a Twitter client, be an IRC client, and much, much more.

In this episode, we'll begin looking at basic useage - moving, editing, killing and yanking - and next week look at customizing Emacs to suit our tastes.

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#26 GNUS, the News and Mail Reader for Emacs

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 you have starttls you should be ok. Also, check out the Emacs Wiki for tons of great information - it is where I found most of what I needed for this episode.

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#7 Quick Editing with GNU Nano

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 to navigate around Nano, and go over how to use some of the advanced - not enabled by default - features.

Keep in mind, when I mention the key "meta" this is also known as the "option" key in the Apple world and "ALT" in the Windows world. That is the key I am referring to.

As I recommend in in the screencast, swapping your CAPS and CTRL keys will help quite a bit while using GNU Nano. Consult episode 2 to find out how.

Macroron provided updated instructions to get spell checking working on Fedora 11