Emacs lisp is not multi-threaded. This library explores possibilities to work around this. It allows forms to be evaluated in a different Emacs process. This means that the executed code cannot access the current environment, and the code’s side effects cannot be used directly. There is a small overhead from starting a new process.

Org-mode is a fabulous organizational tool built by Carsten Dominik that operates on plain text files.

Anyhow, one of the tricks I picked up recently is to write presentations with the combination of org-mode and beamer.

Now, while I am no stranger to LaTeX, especially for writing a quick presentation, it can be a painful to remember the various directives and options. I am not really a daily LaTeX-user, so I tend to forget these things. I am a daily org-mode user though, and org-mode can export to LaTeX (which then, in turn, are translated into PDFs). So why not use org-mode to generate presentations?

iedit.el - interactive “replace all” for #emacs: Highly recommended! :-)