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If you create a task while viewing any buffer other than a Planner
day page, Planner will associate the task with a hyperlink to that
buffer. Try it now by creating a task from this Info buffer.





1. M-x planner-create-task-from-buffer
   
2. When prompted for the task name, enter Learn how to change a task's
   status and press <RET>.
   
   
3. When prompted for the date, press <RET> to schedule the task for
   today.
   
   
4. When prompted for the project page, press <RET> to accept the
   default page of ‘TaskPool’. This is a page for tasks not connected
   to a larger plan.
   
   

6.2.1.4 Cyclic Tasks

If there are tasks that you have to do regularly, you can have Planner
schedule those tasks automatically.

Make sure that planner-cyclic.el is in your load path and add
this to your .emacs (or _emacs):

     (require 'planner-cyclic)

Create a diary file named ~/.diary.cyclic-tasks
(or the value of planner-cyclic-diary-file). Here is an example:

     Tuesday #B0 _ Study Japanese
     Friday #B0 _ Study Japanese (JapaneseStudies)

The first will be a plain task, the second will be linked. The first
line will automatically create its task every Tuesday, while the
second will create it every Friday.

You can schedule tasks in a variety of ways. This module uses the same
syntax for specifying when tasks will be scheduled as the Emacs diary
uses for appointments and events. See the GNU Emacs Manual, and the GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual, for a full
description of the possibilities.

By default, planner-cyclic creates multiple tasks if you let tasks build
up (that is, the next Tuesday rolls around and you still haven't
marked the task as done.) To turn off this behavior:

     (setq planner-cyclic-diary-nag nil)

Functions

planner-cyclic-diary includes the following interactive
functions:

(require 'tramp)
(setq tramp-default-method "scp")

in one's .emacs file. Then open remote files with:

/username@host:remote_path

One of my favorite emacsisms a long time ago was ange-ftp, and the modern descendant, tramp, is one of my current faves. It lets you edit remote files over lots of protocols, including: ssh, scp, ftp, rsync, ftp, and smb.

Most emacs stuff works transparently, like dired and archive browsing. When you edit a file and save it, it's automatically put back on the remote machine. I have had trouble with psvn, but that's about the only thing that I kinda expected to work that didn't.

If you edit remote files and you use emacs, you want to start using this.

pop-global-mark (`C-x C-SPC')

Similar to the above:

In addition to the ordinary mark ring that belongs to each buffer, Emacs has a single “global mark ring”. It records a sequence of buffers in which you have recently set the mark, so you can go back to those buffers.

Setting the mark always makes an entry on the current buffer’s mark ring. If you have switched buffers since the previous mark setting, the new mark position makes an entry on the global mark ring also. The result is that the global mark ring records a sequence of buffers that you have been in, and, for each buffer, a place where you set the mark.

The command ‘C-x C-SPC’ (‘pop-global-mark’) jumps to the buffer and position of the latest entry in the global ring. It also rotates the ring, so that successive uses of ‘C-x C-SPC’ take you to earlier and earlier buffers.

Emacs provides a zap-to-char command that kills from the current point to a character. It is bound to ‘M-z’. Examples of its usage, include:

‘M-z e’

deletes all characters to the next occurence of “e”.

Typing ‘C-u 2 M-z e’

deletes all character to the second occurence of “e”.

Typing ‘C-- M-z e’

deletes all characters to the previous occurence of “e”.

Typing ‘C-u -4 M-z e’

deletes all character to the fourth previous occurence of “e”.

Overview of Ido

    ;;in the .emacs
    (require 'ido)
    (ido-mode t)

To switch between buffers C-x b:

• type some characters appearing in the buffer name, RET to visit the buffer in the front the list.
• use C-s (next) or C-r (previous) to move through the list.
• [Tab] display possible completion in a buffer (or visit the buffer if there is only one possible completion).
• use C-f to fall back to find file.
• type some characters appearing in the file name, RET to open the file in the front of the list.
• C-s (next) or C-r (previous) to move through the list.
• [Tab] display possible completion in a buffer (or open the file or go down the directory if there is only one possible completion).
• type RET to go down inside the directory in front of the list.
• type [backspace] to go up to the parent directory.
• type two slashes to go to the root directory.
• if you feel lost type C-f to go back temporarly to the normal find-file
• do C-x C-d to enter Dired in this directory
• type some characters appearing in the buffer/file name(say .cpp)
• type C-SPC (C-@)
• continue as normal with a list containing only the filtered names