** Emacs course
*** Day 1
**** Editor Wars: a bit of a history about the text edition technologies and text editors
***** TECO, the advanced pioneer
***** MIT TECO
***** Line editors and the infamous ed -> vi evolution.
***** TOPS-20 and the expansion of Emacs
***** Multics Emacs and Gosling Emacs
***** GNU Emacs
***** Religion and text editors
**** Configuration and Installation of GNU Emacs
***** Getting the Emacs source code
***** Configuration and bootstrapping of Emacs
**** Basic Topics
***** Buffers and files
***** The modeline and the minibuffer
***** Regions, the pointer and the mark
***** Killing text
***** Major modes and minor modes
***** Definining keys and macros
***** Working with rectangles
***** Sessions
*** Day 2
**** Emacs Lisp
***** A brief history of Lisp
***** Dialects
***** From the deep to the surface: Lisp in 10 minutes
***** Data abstractions
***** Functional abstractions
***** Special forms
***** Dynamic scope
***** Customizing Emacs
***** Extending Emacs
*** Day 3
**** Advanced Topics
***** Hooks and advices
***** Text properties and overlays
***** Widgets
***** Writing major modes
***** Syntax tables
***** Writing minor modes
***** Working with multiple modes
***** Running shells and external programs
***** The terminal emulator
*** Day 4
**** Development with GNU Emacs
***** Editing programs
****** Programming languages modes
****** Emacs can understand your programs: semantic and CEDET
****** Building and compiling
****** Debugging: the grand unified debugger (gud)
****** Debugging remote programs
****** Version Control Systems (CVS, Bazaar, git, ...)
***** Editing documentation
****** Writing plain text
****** Spell-checking
****** Tex and Latex
****** Texinfo and the info reader
****** SGML and XML related modes
***** calc
*** Day 5
**** Communicating with GNU Emacs
***** Reading mail and news
***** Working with remote files
***** Chatting (jabber, irc, ...)
**** Organizing yourself with GNU Emacs
***** org-mode
***** The calendar and the diary
***** Keeping balances and bank transactions