Edit with Emacs v1.9

Posted on Wed 09 March 2011 in geek • Tagged with emacs

It's been a while so I thought I'd push out a new version of Edit with Emacsto the interwebs. Unfortunately I wasn't able to wrangle the edit-server.el to reliably handle keeping the current frame open for iterative editing. For now this feature is only available via the python …


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2010 In Memorium

Posted on Sun 02 January 2011 in geek, general • Tagged with 2010, emacs, life, review

2010 has been a pretty good year for us, it seems like is has packed a lot in.

Professionally I've been doing really well. The company I work for has had yet another record breaking year which has triggered my bonus again (although I don't find out how much until …


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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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