I've recently upgraded to Fedora Core 14. Not sure how many versions I've had but I'm becoming fairly well at home with the toolbox it offers.

Recently I decided it was getting hard to cd to all the various places on my disk that I use regularly and wrote a shell script to help me. Basically just keys off a keyword and cd's to a matching directory.

In emacs I wanted to do something similar. I.e. I need to cd to various places I visit, simply by updating a list of 'places' or keys. Less easy. Bit of studying of 'the book', Emacs Elisp manual. I arrived tonight, figuring out how the editor lists a directory when I open it, as a file.

I added two more today too. I'm back hacking on a chunk of docbook and I'm becoming lazy. I now have ... functions I guess, which insert quite random bits of docbook in when I highlight a word. tag is an example. I want to mark up a sequence of characters as an element/attribute/namespace prefix etc. Highlight the sequence, hit M-x tag and it's done. I'm slowly developing a long list of 'lazy mans markup' tools to help me with regular strings. I look tools that let me scratch an itch.