Almost there

Posted on Fri 19 November 2010 in geek • Tagged with development, edit with emacs, emacs, help

I thought I might just mention the current state of the development for Edit with Emacs. A number of useful contributions have come in but I want to be able the "incremental edit" feature in the elisp edit server. I had a go but got stuck (marvel at hack in …


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A step towards reducing Emacs Pinky

Posted on Wed 03 November 2010 in geek • Tagged with emacs, screen

As someone who spends most of the day attached to their keyboard I'm fairly sensitive to RSI inducing things. One thing I do suffer from is what's colloquially known as "Emacs Pinky". As the Ctrl is the start of practically every editing command in Emacs it's the left little finger …


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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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