Remembering the last edited location in a file

From the emacs newsgroup, one way to get to back to the last editing location in the file is described here in this thread. Pretty useful, if you jump between a lot of files and need to scroll down to the end every time or some such repeatable action.

A quick way to open files in Emacs

Emacs users when interacting with the shell have a faster method to open files compared to other editors. Most editors will provide a shell escape through which a listing of a directory can be got; or a find command executed.

That's it.

You still need to highlight the interested file, copy into your "open file" dialog and then open the file. Well, Emacs offers the same feature too and more.

If your point is positioned at the start of the file name /tmp/foo, then M-x ffap which stands "find file at point" opens the file. As usual the excellent documentation of ffap gives you other options. Apart from the name, the way the file is opened is simply intuitive without any fuss. In fact, the documentation lists other options to ffap that might useful for mouse users.