• Load and displays images in org files on initial load
• Provides a function that allows you to toggle images on and off
• Specify images you would like to load with the [[file://file.png]] org link type

Here’s the code, you can add it anywhere in your .emacs
;; -- Display images in org mode
;; enable image mode first
(iimage-mode)
;; add the org file link format to the iimage mode regex
(add-to-list 'iimage-mode-image-regex-alist
(cons (concat "\\[\\[file:\\(~?" iimage-mode-image-filename-regex "\\)\\]") 1))
;; add a hook so we can display images on load
(add-hook 'org-mode-hook '(lambda () (org-turn-on-iimage-in-org)))
;; function to setup images for display on load
(defun org-turn-on-iimage-in-org ()
"display images in your org file"
(interactive)
(turn-on-iimage-mode)
(set-face-underline-p 'org-link nil))
;; function to toggle images in a org bugger
(defun org-toggle-iimage-in-org ()
"display images in your org file"
(interactive)
(if (face-underline-p 'org-link)
(set-face-underline-p 'org-link nil)
(set-face-underline-p 'org-link t))
(call-interactively 'iimage-mode))


I have this function bound to C-l with a call like this:

(define-key org-mode-map (kbd "C-S-a") 'org-archive-subtree)

1) Download Plink.exe.

2) Place Plink.exe somewhere in your windows PATH, doesn’t matter where but you have to be able to run in from a command line anywhere on your system.

3) Add the following line somewhere in your .emacs.
(setq tramp-default-method "plink")


From there you should be able to use find-file (C-x C-f) and a command like the following to bring up a remote file:
/user@host.com:/path/to/file.ext


The problem here is that if you remap C-x it breaks commands further down the line regardless. Instead of remapping the keys in this case you want to use keyboard-translate:
;; -- cut C-x, C-x is now C-j
(keyboard-translate ?\C-j ?\C-x)
(keyboard-translate ?\C-x ?\C-w)

This remaps Swaps C-x for C-j and puts kill-region in for for C-x.

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/RecentChanges

On the SVN side of things I’ve been using a library I found over on the EmacsWIKI to interface SVN and emacs. Since I’m using Git so much these days I thought I’d adapt that library to work with TortioseGit.

Right now it only supports log, diff, blame, commit, revert and help. It’s been working great for my uses so far.

tortoise-git.el

(defun tortoise-git-command (command filename)
(start-process "tortoise-git" "foo"
"c:/Progra~1/TortoiseGit/bin/TortoiseProc" (concat "/command:" command)
(concat "/path:" (replace-regexp-in-string "Program Files"
(regexp-quote "Progra~1") (expand-file-name filename))
"")))

(provide 'tortoise-git)


Watch the github repository for more features in the future:

http://github.com/openist/tortoise-git-emacs

One of the things I found the most frustrating was the search functionality, I wanted a search that functioned like firefox’s. It’s second nature to me to copy something hit C-f and C-v in succession to search for it. In EMACS you have to C-s C-y. Here’s a little something I cooked up to get more windows esque functionality with isearch.
(defun windows-isearch-hook ()
(define-key isearch-mode-map (kbd "C-f") 'isearch-repeat-forward)
(define-key isearch-mode-map (kbd "RET") 'isearch-repeat-forward)
(define-key isearch-mode-map (kbd "") 'isearch-exit)
(define-key isearch-mode-map (kbd "C-S-f") 'isearch-repeat-backward)
(define-key isearch-mode-map (kbd "C-v") 'isearch-yank-kill)
(define-key isearch-mode-map (kbd "") 'isearch-ring-retreat)
(define-key isearch-mode-map (kbd "") 'isearch-ring-advance))
(add-hook 'isearch-mode-hook 'windows-isearch-hook)

Additionally if you want to map the C-f key to isearch you’ll have to add this to an appropriate mode hook:
(global-set-key (kbd "C-f") 'isearch-forward)


1) Download NTEMACS + color-theme

There are some various distributions of EMACS for windows but for the purpose of this we will be using NTEMACS, a version of EMACS that uses the native windows GUI. Grab it here:

http://ntemacs.sourceforge.net/

EMACS does not support custom color-themes by default so we will have to download a custom plugin to use themes. Grab this plugin here:

http://download.gna.org/color-theme/

Extract your EMACS folder to c:\emacs or something similar.

2) Create your .emacs file and install the plugin

On windows your EMACS home directory is going to be your “Application Data” folder in your “Documents and Settings” folder. eg:
C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data


In this folder create a blank text file called “.emacs”.

Now we’re going to have to choose a folder where we will install our EMACS plugins this should be within the EMACS home directory. In “C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data” create a folder called: “.emacs.d\includes” and extact color-theme to that directory.

3) Load the color-theme plugin and select a theme

Now bring up .emacs file in your favorite editor again. We’re going to load up the plugin and select a theme. You do so by adding a include call so EMACS knows about the plugin then you can call plugin functions to load up the theme. In your .emacs file place something like:
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/includes/color-theme-6.6.0")
(require 'color-theme)
(setq color-theme-is-global t)
(color-theme-initialize)
;; A nice dark color theme
(color-theme-deep-blue)

Now you can start emacs by calling c:\emacs\bin\runemacs.exe and you should see your wonderful new theme.