I recently turned on longlines-mode for my It's All Text buffers as that is generally what I want (especially for this blog). However when I'm editing email for GMail I want to be able to switch between modes as I may be writing a simple message or inserting a patch …

My previous post regarding the frustrations of a slow frame update when emacsclient was spawning frames wasn't helped by a gotcha I've walked into a couple of times regarding the if function. In my haste to debug problems I'd added a message in some code:

 (if I-am-emacs-22+
+    (message "loading color-theme …

I had a problem on my home machine with the way emacs created new X frames. New frames would appear but then pause for 4-8 seconds before I could type any text. My question to the mailing list was met with a comment to get a faster graphics card. This …

Now the Fedora 11 has pushed Emacs 23 into it's testing repository I can now have 23.1 goodness on all the machines I regularly interact with (although having checked my Gentoo box is still 23.0.96.1, must fix that). I've previously implemented rather painful hacks to make …

I use a fantastic little Firefox add-on called It's all Text to spawn an Emacs client when editing text boxes. However up until recently I kept having problems with formatting of my posts. Even though HTML doesn't really care about white space most blog software tends to treat them as …