Getting it

Posted on Mon 08 June 2009 in misc • Tagged with emacs

Apparently according to href="http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LispUsersAreArrogant">some learning
Lisp is a path to programming enlightenment. Although I'm not in that
school (elisp is about a better editor for me, not a way of life) I
did have a slight light-bulb illuminating moment today.
One of the …

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Messing about with emacs server

Posted on Tue 02 June 2009 in misc • Tagged with emacs

I've been messing around with some weird-ass behaviour with my emacs-server. I had some code in it to deal with automatically opening a fresh frame (while in X) which I had plugged from the emacsclient wiki page. In one of my more recent updates the bleeding edge emacs I run …


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Desktop Save Mode

Posted on Mon 01 June 2009 in geek • Tagged with emacs

While browsing stackoverflow I (re)discovered Desktop Save Mode which I must of played with in an earlier emacs version and then disabled. My only gripe at the moment is watching emacs load everything in it's old face style before my magic new frame starts up. I suspect this is …


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New Feed: Emacs Stuff

Posted on Fri 29 May 2009 in misc • Tagged with emacs

I've created a new feed for my emacs related posts (there are more) with an eye to getting it syndicated on Planet Emacs and joining the wider emacs blogging community. Of course this means I'll have to blog about emacs more often which may throw the "all topics" syndicated livejournal …


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Bunker mentality

Posted on Fri 06 February 2009 in geek • Tagged with emacs, windows, work

True to Hofstader's law it took a few extra days to finish of my (unpaid) work at Essex University. You can see the final results here. It was essentially tweaking a psychology experiment to work in a different colour space and with some funky high dynamic colour range hardware. After …


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