Archive for January, 2006

A new approach

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

Instead of trying to get emacs to work, maybe the right way to go about this is to try to learn how to script Outlook to do what I want.
With the quick investigation I’ve done into the matter, it should be too hard to write a script that does something similar to mew/wl’s refile mechanism […]

Is XEmacs dead, or dying?

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

xemacs related mailing lists seem to mostly be filled with spam.
Feature-wise, it no longer has many advantages over emacs21. It still has a bit more guification, but that seems minor. Gnu emacs21 has all the X-y stuff (variable width fonts, embedded images in buffers, updated look)
Every email post, webpage, or piece of writing that tries […]

Shopping list

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

You know, I always end up creating a list of things I want to buy in the future. Then I end up losing them, and I forget about what I wanted. So in an effort to never make that happen again, I’m going to start writing them here.

Apple 30-inch monitor
A new digital piano. Maybe something […]

My first emacs lisp function

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

So mew has special variable call mew-refile-guess-alist which lets you control how ‘refiling’ works.. i.e. how to guess the target folder of the ‘refile’ operation.
Mew seems to, in general, offer a different way to read mail that comes from many lists… it works better if you have them all come to your inbox, read them […]

Argh

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

Why is there never a perfect piece of software.
Wanderlust almost all of what I want, but it has several annoying bugs/misfeatures:

It’s single threaded, so if it get’s stuck during an imap sync, the whole damn thing get’s stuck, the whole emacs session is stuck
It doesn’t have any way to tell you that there’s […]

Grrr

Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

As usual, I get to the scene a bit late.. but today I finally installed Growl.
Then I discovered an emacs lisp that uses growlnotify to allow any emacs app to notify growl
The possibilities are endless..

Using the OSX input method with terminal emacs

Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

Well, according to PC web, the only step I was missing (after all the stuff in the two previoius posts) was to turn off the “Escape non-ASCII sequences” option the Emulation section of Terminal.app’s “Window Settings’ dialog.
Terminal.app has this clever feature, where if you start inserting Japanese into the terminal, it displays the pre-edit buffer […]

A bit better

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

For some reason ubuntu had a really old version of wanderlust (2.10 series, which is more than two years old). I guess no one updated the debian repository until very recently, so when ubuntu 5.10 came out, it was already too late to get included. Thankfully, the ubuntu universe pool has a .deb for the […]

My ideal work setup (almost)

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

Nerd alert. You’ve been warned.
So I’m back on emacs. I like emacs’ perforce integration better than I do vim’s.
I’ve also set up “mew” to read my imap mail. It works reasonably well, but one annoying limitation is that it can’t view imap folders with spaces in them!? But I’ve gotten mew to work with mew-ldap […]

Thunderbird for connecting to an Exchange server from a Mac

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

So after unsuccessfully lobbying our IT department to turn off Public Folders when the Exchange server is accessed through IMAP, I took the plunge and installed Thunderbird 1.5 for OS X. It actually works pretty well (which means: it doesn’t peg the CPU when updating imap folders, LDAP lookups work, even with substring searches, and […]