:mail: grep -E "^(Subject|From )" $MAIL | sed -e "s/Subject: / /g" alias it to something (e.g. cm) for a quick look-through your incoming mail. Works nicely for mailing list digests too. % :mail:procmail: Get rid of spams! Organize your folder! Use procmail! http://w3.cc.monash.edu.au/~ajc/projects/doc/procmail.html % :mail:mutt: Use mutt for your mails. Threading, regrexp, color, PGP, MIME. % :mail:mutt: Use 'T' (tag-pattern) to select lots of messages and ';' then an operation (e.g. 'd' for delete') to delete multiple messages. % :jed: Use text jed for editing. Syntax colored, emacs keys without the bloat. % :slrn:mutt: You can open your saved news articles (eg. those saved in slrn with the 'o' key) with mutt, and view/use them as individual emails. Just change to that news file as a folder. % :jed:emacs: Little used, but very nice jed/emacs feature: Meta-q (or ESC-q, or ALT-q) aligns paragraphs, with wordwrapping, properly. C-u M-q will justify it like word processors full justify. Looks ugly IMHO though. If you are using jed, make sure you are using emacs keybindings only, not with EDT. % :xterm: Shell tricks for xterms/rxvts: echo -n "^[]2;angch@yoyo^G" # Change window's name to "angch@yoyo" echo -n "^[]1;angch@yoyo^G" # Change icon's name to "angch@yoyo" echo -n "^[];angch@yoyo^G" # Change both to "angch@yoyo" In tcsh, alias cwdcmd 'echo -n "^[]2;${USER}@`hostname -s`: $cwd^G"' will display your login name, machine name and your _current_ directory. Note. ^[ and ^G means Ctrl+[ and Ctrl+G respectively. In vi, use ^V to enter those control characters. % :windowmaker: Ctrl-dbl-click on an application icon will run another copy of it % :windowmaker: To move a window(s) a different desktop quickly, using keyboard: Bind a key combination to select a window. Select window(s) to move, switch to your destination desktop (e.g. Alt-1), and unselect them. % :windowmaker: Convenient taskbar Bring up the window list menu (middle click on desktop). Click on title bar to make it sticky, and move it to the right, so that it is partially exposed. You can then easily select your window to go to, and move your mouse to the right edge of the screen for the window list to auto scroll back on to see the full window name.