Sometimes when I plan to read a longish html text, I fire up EWW, a small web browser that comes with Emacs.
However, reading pages on larger monitor doesn't provide good experience, at least not for me. Here is an example:
Closing all parentheses at once
While watching interesting presentation called Inspiring a future Clojure editor with forgotten Lisp UX, I've noticed author mentioned one really cool feature I was looking for some time - Interlisp's super-paren.
In short, Interlisp had this unique super-paren option, bound to ] key, that would close all opened parentheses at once.
To my knowledge, Emacs doesn't have something like this out of the box, unless you use Allegro CL mode or SLIME, but let's see how would it be hard to implement it.
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Displaying org-mode appointments in calendar
One neat feature of org-mode agenda is ability to display appointments in Emacs calendar. Sadly, this isn't obvious nor enabled by default - I discovered it accidentally by browsing through Emacs themes screenshots.
In screenshot below, you can see highlighted days with planned meetings and scheduled work in my calendar.
