Here are a couple of interesting tricks I've got in my .emacs.

This lets me use f5 to switch back and forth between two buffers:

(defun switch-to-other-buffer ()
  "Switch to other-buffer in current window"
  (interactive)
  (switch-to-buffer (other-buffer)))

(global-set-key [f5] 'switch-to-other-buffer)

This is an example of how to add a new keybinding to template-mode. Note that you have to call template-set-keybindings after changing template-func-list. I'll fix this at some point in the future.

;;;; Load my template-generating functions.
(require 'template-mode)
(add-to-list 'template-func-list
             '("P" "template.html"
               '("Filename" "Title")))
(template-set-keybindings)