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* Gnu Emacs user, currently working in 23.4 and 24.0.94.1 as of 2012-03-27
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==About Me==
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* '''RealName=Greg Scott'''
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* '''Coastal Texas Anarchist MicroNation'''
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* Gnu Emacs user, currently working in 24.2 as of 2012-12
 
* Emacs user for 15 years, but seem to be relearning all the time because of forgetting what I haven't used recently
 
* Emacs user for 15 years, but seem to be relearning all the time because of forgetting what I haven't used recently
* spend 99% of PC time in either Emacs or Chrome
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* spend 99% of PC time in either Emacs or Firefox
* former Linux user (from scratch, Slackware up to 9.1). Recent distros don't support all hardware on my 12 year old PC, and have gotten too bloated, so:
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* Linux user (Linux From Scratch, Slackware up to 9.1, Puppy)
* currently on Windows XP, which is faster on my old PC than recent Linux distros
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* Topics that I want to learn more about:
* Topics I'm currently trying to get working on Windows XP that worked on Linux:
 
** spell check (aspell or hunspell)
 
** offline dictionary lookup (edict, kanjidic)
 
* Topics that are not OS-specific that I want to learn more about:
 
 
** specifying a different font for various Unicode ranges
 
** specifying a different font for various Unicode ranges
** new features in version 24 (it handles RTL languages like Hebrew, Arabic!, adds rectangle-number-lines C-x r N)
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** new features in version 24 (it handles RTL languages like Hebrew, Arabic, shows the hex code for non-displaying glyphs instead of the empty block, adds rectangle-number-lines C-x r N)
 
** old modes I've forgotten through disuse, new modes
 
** old modes I've forgotten through disuse, new modes
** ditto for tips and tricks
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=='''Emacs version'''==
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* GNU Emacs 24.2 as of 2012-12
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* 20+ years on Unix platforms, Linux
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=='''WikEmacs'''==
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*[[WikEmacs:Guidelines]]
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*[[Template:NewPage]]
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*[[Special:Upload|Upload file]]
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*[[Special:AllPages|AllPages]], useful when WikEmacs is small
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*[[Special:Categories]]
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*[[:Category:Templates]]
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*[[:Category:Programming]]
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*[[Special:ListRedirects|ListRedirects]]
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*[[Special:UncategorizedCategories|UncategorizedCategories]], love that one!
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*[[Special:UncategorizedTemplates|UncategorizedTemplates]]
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*[[Mediawiki.el]]
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*[[Emacs_Lisp|Emacs Lisp]]
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*[[SLIME]]
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*[[List of Emacs plugins for Web browsers]]
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*[[Emacs as a web browser's external editor]]
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*[[Edit with Emacs]]
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*[[It's All Text!]]
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*[[Spell check]]
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*[[Unicode support]]
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*[[Key Bindings]]
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*[[Tabbar]]
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*[[Emacs-mode]]
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*[[Lookup]]
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*[[Edict]]
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*[[]]
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*[[]]
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*[[]]
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=='''External Links'''==
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*[https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/wikemacs Google Group:WikEmacs]
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*[http://emacswiki.org/ EmacsWiki], was the predecessor to [[Main Page|WikEmacs]]
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*[http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs.html Xah Emacs Tutorial], why can't more people get to the point, as Xah does?
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*[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikitext_examples MediaWiki Markup Examples]
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[[Category:WikEmacs Contributor]]

Revision as of 08:37, 16 December 2012

About Me

  • RealName=Greg Scott
  • Coastal Texas Anarchist MicroNation
  • Gnu Emacs user, currently working in 24.2 as of 2012-12
  • Emacs user for 15 years, but seem to be relearning all the time because of forgetting what I haven't used recently
  • spend 99% of PC time in either Emacs or Firefox
  • Linux user (Linux From Scratch, Slackware up to 9.1, Puppy)
  • Topics that I want to learn more about:
    • specifying a different font for various Unicode ranges
    • new features in version 24 (it handles RTL languages like Hebrew, Arabic, shows the hex code for non-displaying glyphs instead of the empty block, adds rectangle-number-lines C-x r N)
    • old modes I've forgotten through disuse, new modes

Emacs version

  • GNU Emacs 24.2 as of 2012-12
  • 20+ years on Unix platforms, Linux

WikEmacs

External Links