More on TRAMP

Posted on Fri 29 October 2010 in geek • Tagged with emacs, tramp

I've mentioned TRAMP before. It's a very handy way of editing remote files. However I've been having a few problems with it today.

The most common access method used by TRAMP to access files these days is via ssh. It basically uses a remote terminal session to navigate the remote …


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Google Gate-gate

Posted on Mon 25 October 2010 in geek • Tagged with big brother, google, security, wifi

Google was on the news this morning for the latest piece of fall-out from their WiFi survey.

For the uninitiated for some time the Google Street View cars have been scraping WiFi data as they roam the streets. The intention has been to build a database of SSIDs as an …


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Code Insomnia

Posted on Fri 27 August 2010 in geek • Tagged with code, holiday, insomnia

It's very rare programs are ever complete, let alone perfect. I pulled a fairly late session night to push a release out at work. Hopefully testing have a chance to raise any major clangers before I go on holiday for the next month. However the combination of late night coding …


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Edit with Emacs v1.8

Posted on Thu 19 August 2010 in geek • Tagged with chrome, chromium, development, elisp, emacs, extension, javascript

After a relatively quiet period a number of patches have flowed my way so I thought it was worth pushing out a new version. Perhaps the most "important" feature is the edit box flashing and fading from yellow after being updated (like It's All Text). It wasn't that hard to …


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Looping in LISP

Posted on Tue 10 August 2010 in geek • Tagged with code, elisp, emacs, examples, lisp

Loops are a fairly important part of any programming language and fairly fundamental to a language that is purported to be all about manipulating lists. However it's not something I use that often in my .emacs code so I thought it might be useful to discuss the various options with …


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