BBDB: Filtering by Mail Alias
You can use “a” (bbdb-add-or-remove-mail-alias) in BBDB buffers to add a mail alias to the current entry, or “* a” to add a mail alias to all displayed entries. I use mail aliases to tag or categorize...
View ArticleWicked Cool Emacs: BBDB: Keeping track of contact dates
I hadn’t realized just how much I missed my Big Brother Database until today. Three networking events packed into one week meant that I hadn’t set aside enough time for follow up, and I felt my...
View ArticleWorking on the book
Now that I have an idea of what a good Wicked Cool Emacs book chapter looks like, I find it much easier to write and edit chapters. I’ve just finished revising my first three chapters based on my...
View ArticleWicked Cool Emacs: BBDB: Use nicknames and custom salutations
I like starting my e-mail with a short salutation such as “Hello, Mike!”, “Hello, Michael”, or “Hello, Mikong!”, but it can be hard to remember which nicknames people prefer to use, and calling someone...
View ArticleWicked Cool Emacs: BBDB: Set up BBDB
The main address book and contact management module for Emacs is the Insidious Big Brother Database (BBDB), which can be integrated into several mail clients and other modules within Emacs. If you use...
View ArticleWicked Cool Emacs: BBDB: Work with Records
Creating Records Creating a record in BBDB is not like creating a record in graphical address book programs. You will be prompted for each field through the minibuffer, one field at a time. Don’t worry...
View ArticleWicked Cool Emacs: BBDB: Import CSV and vCard Files
If you have many contacts in another address book program, you can import them into BBDB. Two popular formats are comma-separated value files (CSV) and vCard files (VCF). Project XXX: Import a CSV File...
View ArticleEmacs Gnus: Searching Mail
There are several ways to find messages in Emacs. From the summary buffer, you can use / o (gnus-summary-insert-old-articles) to display all or some old messages. You can then scan through the headers...
View ArticleEmacs Gnus: Organize Your Mail
People handle large volumes of mail in different ways. Keeping everything in one mailbox can quickly become unmanageable because messages you need to read get lost among messages you don’t need to...
View ArticleEmacs Gnus: Filter Spam
(draft for an upcoming book called Wicked Cool Emacs) Ah, spam, the bane of our Internet lives. There is no completely reliable way to automatically filter spam. Spam messages that slip through the...
View ArticleMight need to spend more time hanging out with Emacs geeks =)
This is dreadful. I’ve made no progress on my book, and I’ve noticed that it has steadily crept down my list of priorities. I suspect it has a lot to do with the kinds of people I hang out with and the...
View ArticleThings I can do to make progress on my book
Switch my development environment to Emacs Put together the existing book chapters I have so far Process the tech reviews I’ve gotten back Work on one outline item Work on a different chapter View and...
View ArticleEmacs and PHP tutorial: php-mode
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...
View ArticleEmacs and Gnus: zomg, new chapter out the door!
So I _finally_ pulled everything together and got my Gnus chapter out the door. Hooray, hooray, hooray! Reading Mail with Gnus (PDF) Reading Mail with Gnus (HTML), produced by Org Disclaimers: It’s...
View ArticleWhy browse the Web in Emacs?
“Are you browsing Slashdot in Emacs?”, W- asked me after he glanced at my screen. With Emacs’ reputation for including everything _and_ the kitchen sink, you probably won’t be surprised to hear that...
View ArticleEmacs and w3m: Fake your user agent
In an ideal world, you would never need to make your browser pretend to be a different browser. In reality, a number of websites check for specific browsers such as Mozilla or Internet Explorer, or...
View ArticleEmacs and W3M: Toggling between work and the Web
Here’s a handy shortcut that toggles between the W3M web browser and other buffers you’re working on. I use it to quickly switch between code and documentation (or your favorite timewasting site, as it...
View ArticleEmacs and w3m: Making tabbed browsing easier
If you browse with a lot of open tabs, like I do, w3m will be much easier to use once you remap w3m-next-buffer and w3m-previous-buffer onto single-key shortcuts, allowing you to press a key to quickly...
View ArticleEmacs w3m: Open pages in external browsers
Sometimes w3m is not enough. To make it easier to open the current page in a browser such as Mozilla Firefox, add the following to your ~/.emacs: (defun wicked/w3m-open-current-page-in-firefox () "Open...
View ArticleEmacs basics: Changing the background color
One of the first things you’ll probably want to change about Emacs is the default face. This controls the foreground color, the background color, the font, and other attributes. For example, many...
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