EHACKS

I used hack elisp. In general, the idea was to get as much of my working environment as possible in one place so I didn't have to keep switching around between apps/keymaps/etc. Lest you doubt me, my standard working environment, spread over six virtual desktops, was one copy of Emacs running VM, BBDB and gnuserv (and sometimes Gnus); one copy of Netscape, and a whole mess of XTerms and multi-frame Emacs sessions for everything else. Most of the hacks I've done are small-fry since Emacs generally does most of what I want already (although have a peek at the Emacs rant in the "hairballs" section!). However, I've also made some bigger hacks, like my once-glorious coding-standards assistant and my mud client. There follows some fun Emacs hackery that I have either picked up along the way or learned myself.

• The mud client. This and BBDB were my longest-running hacks. This had about a dozen or so users at the last count, at which point I stopped caring.
• BBDB wasn't insidious enough for ME, although eventually I admitted that a) I wasn't using it much any more and b) I'd lost momentum on developing it, so I handed it over to Robert Widhopf-Fenk.
• sigfile.el is a random .signature toy. Try bolting it onto mail-setup-hook once you've figured out how to configure it.
• linkfarm-mode is my ongoing attempt to make Emacs automatically update my website for me. This is hooked into my diary-writing assistant in an attempt to automate linking these pages to each other.
• cddb-mode is a mode for editing CDDB files after you've found yet another album with all the spelling screwed up when you try ripping it.
• VM randomness, where I have dropped some random hacks and config stuff for VM which at this point is probably long out of date.
• Rolodex mode, which I jointly developed with Stephen Shortland when I rejoined Motorola after two years to discover that xrolodex was no longer on the system, thus making my rolodex files useless. This revived them.
  
  This was written when I was at the "what does this do?" phase of learning elisp, and it probably shows. Specifically, things like C-h m don't do anything useful despite the apparent presence of a rolodex-mode. Still, better than nowt.
• The coding-standards assistant. Based on prepress.el by Johnathan Vail, which was based on some other stuff by Constantine Rasmussen.