I’ve switched from XEmacs to Emacs, about a month back. I like it much better. On Xubuntu, many more things work “out of the box” (for example the Noweb mode for Sweave). X clipboard contents are immediately available for yanking! One thing that’s always annoyed me in both XEmacs and Emacs was the buffer switching [...]
Weblogger.el offers a nice way to post directly to a WordPress blog from Emacs; here’s a good description how to set it up. In addition: When creating an entry, you can also set categories by adding a line “Keywords:” to the header, such as: Keywords: Linux, Emacs, Noobs I haven’t figured out how to do [...]
XEmacs uses fill-column to break lines at a width defined by the user, either automatically as you type, or whenever you hit M-q, depending on whether auto-fill-mode is set to 1 or to −1. For me, the default is set to 70 in ~/.xemacs/init.el by this line:(setq default-fill-column 70). If you want to change fill-column temporarily for [...]