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all the old stuff. You can just go back. If you missed something, you just go back far enough and look stuff up there. That's also possible.

What else do I use? Well, I can open my file but I'm not going to show it to you.

Sacha: That's all right.

Carsten: As I said. But actually, of course, I do use Babel to tangle it. You asked me that question in the run up to this.

Sacha: Yes.

Carsten: So I certainly do this, but there's really very little interesting stuff. As I said, IDL is this programming language where there's this interface which I also worked on. I use that a lot. I do a little bit of encryption, but not systematically. I have one or two files which I read encrypted. There's this automatic decryption thing when you open it in Emacs. Basically my password file is a file which is an encrypted file, which I keep in this way.

Flyspell stuff.

BBDB… I used to be a big user of BBDB. It's also a little bit decreased, because I do my mail now in Apple mail and the interaction with that contact manager is not that good anymore.

Sacha: Yes. I also had extensive notes in BBDB. I had it hooked into Gnus so that every time I sent mail, it would update the BBDB record as well, with the subject line. But since I moved to Google Mail and Google Contacts, I haven't really been doing the synchronization as much, which is a pity.

Carsten: Google Contacts is really the best place, because I think that has the largest range of synchronization possibilities. All kinds of stuff that's good. While I'm also a big Git user and Magit user, but I think you have discussed this before, so maybe this is not so interesting.

Sacha: It is awesome. All of that. Don't worry about repeating anything. Again, Emacs is awesome. People will use different parts of its awesomeness.

Carsten: Yes. Magit is really good. It's also because of the integration with the change log entry creation and stuff like this. That actually that may be