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Dec 22, 2006

Hey emacs guys. I've been using emacs for a week and I was wondering about some things:

If I'm using the doc viewer to read a pdf from within emacs, is there a way to save it so that the next time I open emacs it opens at the same page I was at?
Is there a way to list all the folders associated with a project while I code? I've been opening up a shell and using a cli file manager just to keep track, but I was hoping there was something a bit more seamless.
While I'm at it, can I make it start with split windows? So one for terminal, one for pdf, one for editing code?
Is there a way to switch buffers between split windows more reliably then M-x ido-mode? Like instead be able to do M-x 1, 2 ,3 to switch around from file to file?

Can I boot into emacs instead of X and still read PDFs? It sounds odd, but what I really like about emacs is that it is so inclusive and I never have to leave it, and I think the next step would be just to start in emacs and use it as a windows manager, but I'm not sure if that's possible.

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Dec 22, 2006

I need something to clock in. I'm not sure how org-mode works, but from what I read it's not exactly what I'm looking for. I have to bill hourly, and I wanted to bill only the time I spend in emacs, so if I tab over and open firefox to watch porn, I want the timer to stop. However, if I open a browser within emacs, presumably to do work related things, I want that to go into the timer. Does anyone know of anything with that functionality, or how I could hack something to have that functionality ?

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Dec 22, 2006

Would that program work if I was ssh'd into a box somewhere else? I haven't figured out yet how to do M-x SSH, or tramp mode yet so I wouldn't be running emacs locally.

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Dec 22, 2006

what about if I want to just be on the other box not just open a file?

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