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There are a lot of people who are living with emacs around the world.
Sometimes, it is very fun to see how they use emacs and even very helpful to learn from it.
Screencasts show how people actually work with emacs.
You can pick up valuable usage patterns, just by looking over someones shoulder.
== What is screencast ? ==
Screencast is a kind of "video screen capture" with/without voiceover.
== Tips in creating emacs screencast ==
I saw Derek Slager used CommandLogMode, which I think is essential in emacs screencast.
== Emacs Screencasts ==
* [http://vimeo.com/2871241 Meet Magit] introduces [http://zagadka.vm.bytemark.co.uk/magit/ Magit], a git mode, by demonstrating a variety of features designed to keep you productive with git without ever leaving the comfort of Emacs.
* [https://peepcode.com/products/meet-emacs PeepCode's Meet Emacs] is an hour-long professionally-recorded video (available in Ogg and other formats) that teaches Emacs. It is sold for $9. For a preview, see [http://peepcode.com/system/uploads/2008/peepcode-emacs-in-5-demo.mov 5 minutes of Emacs].
* [http://www.vimeo.com/2854412 Rinari Screencast] is a short demonstration of the [http://rinari.rubyforge.org/ Rinari] minor-mode for RubyOnRails development
* Derek Slager shows how he use emacs in [http://derekslager.com/blog/posts/2007/02/screencast-formatting-a-css-file-with-emacs.ashx Formatting a CSS File.]
* Seongkook(CinSK) has very interesting screencasts in his website. see them all in [http://www.cinsk.org/emacs/ here]
* Marshall Vandegrift uses EmacsCodeBrowser and show [http://platypope.org/yada/emacs-demo how to move ruby on rails with it]
* MarcoBaringer [http://common-lisp.net/movies/slime.mov shows SlimeMode] (150MB Quicktime movie, also available [http://common-lisp.net/movies/slime.torrent via Bittorrent]) (see also [http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/reference-for-the-slimelispemacs-screencast/ reference guide] here)
* another SlimeMode demo from the [http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/ vnc2swf-site]: http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/slime.html
* [http://www.rubyist.net/~rubikitch/images/icicles-rcodetools.gif Icicles with rcodetools], by [[rubikitch]]
* DavidEsposito manages web sites using EmacsMuse : [http://greens.org/~ringo0 Here's a demo of how he uses it]
* MsfAbbrev mode is very good abbreviation package. You can see it in action at [http://www.bloomington.in.us/~brutt/msf-abbrev-demo.gif here]
* [http://nschum.de/src/emacs/company-mode/screencast/ A demo] of experimental CompanyMode, which offers a completion list (like intellisense) in the buffer
* [http://nschum.de/src/emacs/tempo-templates/screencast/ A demo] of TempoSnippets, a snippet.el-like front-end for TempoMode.
* RubyOnRails and EmacsCodeBrowser demo (no audio, Flash required): http://emacsonrails.drozdov.net [1.8MB]
* Short [http://eigenclass.org/hiki.rb?rcodetools RCodeTools] [http://www.rubyist.net/~rubikitch/images/icicles-rcodetools.gif animation] showing use of [[Icicles]] completion with Ruby
* Editing !JavaDoc via DocMode: http://nschum.de/src/emacs/doc-mode/screencast/
* OrgMode:
** http://jaderholm.com/screencasts.html
** Carsten Dominik about OrgMode on /Google TechTalks/: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJTwQvgfgMM
* yasnippet – Yet Another Snippet extension for emacs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOj7btx3ATg
* artist-mode: http://www.cinsk.org/emacs/emacs-artist.html
* ido-mode: http://www.vimeo.com/1013263
* General getting started screencasts for emacs on OS X: http://railsnewbie.com (6 large quicktime movies)
* "Red Shank" by Michael Weber is a helper for all CommonLisp hackers. You can see a demo at
http://www.foldr.org/~michaelw/emacs/redshank/
* [NxhtmlMode nXhtml], some tutorials: http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/nXhtml/tut/tutorials.html
* Emacs Column Editing (with cua-mode): http://www.vimeo.com/1168225?pg=embed&sec=1168225
[http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=ADF1B9E7-74A8-401D-9B0E-8326749F9419&displaylang=en This] is not a emacs screencast but, pretty famous video showing emacs in action by Don Box. funny. You can see he changes slash into backslash in shell mode running cmdproxy.exe :-)
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