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Conkeror: "Firefox for Emacs users"

Date: 2008-01-28 | Modified: 2009-04-01 | Tags: conkeror, emacs, keyboard, preferences, softwaretools | 2 Comments

I recently discovered Conkeror via Bill Clementson's article, Firefox for Emacs users . I must say it is pretty sweet. It's the type of thing that makes you have to get up and go to the bathroom because it's so exciting.

So I switched over to Emacs from Eclipse about 4 months ago. Though it has been slow learning everything in Emacs, I am starting to feel pretty comfortable now and actually feel uneasy when I'm using another editor. It is very nice to be able to do everything with the keyboard in Emacs. I can do ...

My software tools list

Date: 2007-08-10 | Modified: 2010-05-28 | Tags: android, c_cplusplus, colinux, conkeror, cygwin, django, eclipse, emacs, keyboard, linux, mercurial, preferences, python, softwaretools, subversion, ubuntu, urxvt, wide, wmii | 6 Comments

Inspired by Mark Pilgrim's 2006 Essentials list, below is a list of my current software tools. If you notice a lot of "I switched from ..." statements, keep in mind that I am a programmer who likes shiny things.