A new blog dedicated to Emacs

Thanks! This is exactly what I was looking for! Short useful snippets which demonstrate extending Emacs with Emacs Lisp.

Emacs Rocks is pretty sweet too: http://emacsrocks.com/

This is how Emacs is different from other editors. Like the blog posts show - you start with a need and try to find how the existing Emacs LISP code is written. Next, you try to customize it to your need. Finally, you assign it to a keyboard shortcut.

You adapt Emacs to your workflow, just like you adapt Lisp to your problem domain.

Regarding the second entry, 'electric pair', I don't get it: Emacs has the amazing paredit. Working with paredit feels like semi-structural editing.

I'm always amazed by people complaining that getting parentheses matched is "hard" or some other non-sense: when using paredit not only is it trivial to get right, but it also does feel like being in some distant future where text editor will allow real structural editing.