Edit with Emacs v1.7

Posted on Thu 29 July 2010 in geek • Tagged with chrome, chromium, emacs

It's been a while so I released a new version of Edit with Emacs for Google Chrome(ium). To be honest most of the changes are to edit-server.el. The most major change is moving all the frame configuration options into a single edit-server-new-frame-alist which might cause confusion if people …


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The power of Tramp

Posted on Thu 29 July 2010 in geek • Tagged with emacs, remote-editing, tramp

The project I've been working on at work the last few weeks has involved bringing up a brand new embedded system. As part of that I've been tweaking a lot of start-up scripts and configuration files on the new system.

For part of that task I've installed GNU Zile which …


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New Phone

Posted on Thu 22 July 2010 in geek • Tagged with android, hero, htc, open-source, phones

One of the advantages of the current bread of smart phones is they are field upgradable. As so much of their functionality is basically software it makes no sense to treat the phone as a static product once it leaves the factory gates. Coupled with the rapid development of the …


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Emacs Daemon and Handling Projects

Posted on Mon 05 July 2010 in geek • Tagged with emacs, ide, projects

All my machines have been running persistent Emacs daemons for some time now. Every time I edit a web-page text area or a tweak a configuration file the Emacs client whizzes me to the file with efficient enthusiasm.

However I'm still running individual sessions for each "project" I work on …


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On the nature of Planets

Posted on Thu 01 July 2010 in geek • Tagged with community, emacs, planet

I upgraded my Wordpress install yesterday which inadvertently broke the 'emacs' tagged feed to Planet Emacsen. The aim of having a sub-feed from my blog was so I didn't pollute the planet feed with my rambling life story which is probably of more interest(?) to my friends and family. They …


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