I can't remember who said it, but I recall reading a epigram somewhere on the Usenet that stated Emacs actually lowers your productivity not from the Twister-like key chords required to use it, but by getting you addicted to frobbing emacs lisp for ten hours a day. So I've chosen to post here a few scripts possibly useful to others.
Every place I've worked, from administering school labs to post-collegiate employment, I have been maligned by coworkers with accusations of having the smallest font in the world. Just being near the monitor was enough to send some into catatonic shock.
So I decided to do something about it.
I liked Mozilla's font zooming capabilities and interface. Simply changing the size of the default font wasn't enough––I wanted the window to stay the same size and show less text on the screen. This makes things a lot easier to see when you change the font size on the fly. So I coded up font-zoom to implement this. It will only work in a non-terminal toolkit, like X or MS Windows, and I've only actually tested it under Windows. Feel free to adapt it to other toolkits.
On one of my jobs, frustrated with a lack of tools for dealing with files associated with the now obsolete American Arium EZ-Pro embedded development system, I went home and wrote a few modes to help out. It proved a few hours to sit and learn about the file formats and ways to manipulate them. The first of those is a mode for viewing Motorola S-Record formatted files, which were often used for transferring data or code to embedded devices. More information can be found on the Motorola S-Record Format at the following links.
The second of those modes is a mode for viewing output files from SuperLNK, American Arium's linker. This is a fairly undocumented file format, and because I couldn't find anything about it on the web, I had to write this mode from memory of a set of particularly similar files I have to massage at work. Therefore, it is not complete or probably that general. But it does a good enough job for me.