On a lark, I was thinking “I wish I could read pdfs inside emacs”. Like any good emacs user, I headed over to emacswiki and did a search for ‘pdf’. There is a bit of lisp there to run pdftotext on the file and open it in emacs. It *works*. Though it’s not very compelling…at least not on the pdf I tried.
w00t! Found it. I have been using the shell command a lot in the minibuffer, but it didn’t have tab completion. To paraphrase something I read on the Emacs list the other day…”Saying, ‘you can’t do that in Emacs’, is usually false”. I found this lisp file (script?)
I figure I can post emacs tips as I run across them.
If you often open the same buffers everytime you start Emacs, you can save them so that upon reopen they are already there and open.
Get everything the way you want, and do
M-x desktop-save
Then in your .emacs file
(desktop-read)
That will open all the buffers from the desktop-save session, and you are ready to go.