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RandomIdleQuote

When emacs enters idle, a random quote will appear in your echo area. I use this to help me learn new things. At different points in time I have had tips from programming books, syntax notes that I seem to always forget, or new emacs key strokes I want to learn but use very infrequently. You can customize the quotes to anything you would like, maybe you would like a laugh here or there, or maybe memorize some scripture, who knows, but enjoy!

Great idea! What if we will have some page on EmacsWiki where quotes are collected and people can update them? (just like EmacsUserLocations) and when random-idle-quote.el starts it fetches quotes from EmacsWiki? And of course it should have customisable variable like `random-idle-quote-offline'. --ZajcevEvgeny

‘M-x yow’ !!!!!DrewAdams

I knew about ‘M-x yow’ and don’t care too much to reinvent the wheel, but this being one of my first elisp projects (if you can call it that), I did it from scratch. I guess, I could have simply setup yow on an idle timer but for some reason, I had this in my mind, and it’s what came out. I was just happy it worked :)JeremyCowgar

I do think it’s a great idea to have use submitted “hints and tips” that can be used with random-idle-quote, or yow for that matter. It would be a great teaching tool if there were pages like YowEasyEmacsKeys?, YowAdvancedEmacsKeys?, YowCoolEmacsCommands?, etc… – JeremyCowgar

It is very useful indeed, and questions: 1. Can I add new quotes in .emacs rather than go to the .el; 2. How to make some of the quotes to come out more often, for example, the first ten on the top? – Chaoji Li