I'm trying to include source code in some documents. #latex on freenode says to use the listings package, but as far as I can tell, it is horribly broken out of the box. 2 things that are essential ...

I got exposed to Emacs in the 1990’s when I used Unix mainframes and VT220 terminals for work. At the beginning, it was just my programmer’s editor and when I got used to it, I looked for ports to use ...