• Emacs/Spotlight integration
• Emacsy OSX
• Some Emacs color themes
• Emacs for Mac OS

Based on this screencast, ECB is well worth checking out — the code introspection features seem like they would be quite useful. Unfortunately, based on some early research, the documentation may be a bit on the minimal side. Anybody out there have pointers?

The M-x yow command (aka Zippy the Pinhead mode) is being removed from Emacs.

(Via a comment on and a small aubergine…, on a post outlining a way to use M-x yow to provide more interesting template boilerplate than the traditional Lorem Ipsum.)

Emacs joins the tagging craze. Worth looking at for the excellent graphic alone…

This emacs-wiki-discuss posting by Paul Lussier has a great description of how planner.el sucks people in “first taste is free”-style:

As I started in using planner and emacs-wiki, I very quickly became addicted. This was almost literally, an overnight conversion of my life. I no sooner started using emacs-wiki/planner, than I found myself using erc. Reading johnw’s README for planner led me to his site, where I discovered ledger (John’s unbelievably powerful financial app.) and eshell. Then came (in no specific order) w3m, muse, remember, bbdb, and last, but not least, gnus. The last three are significant. I had been mostly happy with my prior e-mail environment of an mh-backend based e-mail solution for the better part of a decade. But there was no way I could hook that in to planner, and after a several months of resistance, I attempted the switch to mh-e which, as you may remember, didn’t go so well :) So, now I’m on gnus, and almost every facet of my life is now hooked into emacs. I’ve learned more about emacs and lisp in the past year than I have in the past 10 years.

I am not a smug Lisp weenie, although I occasionally play a smug Emacs weenie on a mailing list or two. Truth to be told, I know just enough Lisp to do the occasional serious damage to my Emacs config files. Rectifying that has been on my TODO list for ages, but I’ve never gotten around to it, sadly enough.

A while back, I tried switching to GNU Emacs. In general, I liked it okay, and a number of things were easier to deal with (because it seems most of the stuff I use in emacsen is written with GNU Emacs in mind, and then ported slowly and fitfully to XEmacs). I ended up switching back to XEmacs, though, because I couldn’t use GNU Emacs in the way I wanted to: with one master process running all the time, and me popping up frames when and where I wanted withgnuclient.

Recently, I discovered that somebody was adding multi-TTY support to GNU Emacs. This morning, I downloaded the project’s Arch repository, and built the tree. Initial tests have confirmed that I can now use GNU Emacs just like XEmacs — a master process running a server, and other processes connecting to that from terminals and X. This is pretty cool. “Convert back to GNU Emacs” goes onto the todo list now, I think.