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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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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