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  Getting started with Emacs

  12.24.12 | Permalink | Comment?

  In summary, here is the path I would recommend for learning emacs. Get emacs installed I like these instructions. They are succinct but cover the necessities. However,  I would not recommend using the init.el offered on that page. It provides fixes for many issues that are not fixed by default and if you build your […]

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  Spell Check in Emacs

  12.14.12 | Permalink | Comment?

  I am a terrible speller, I need all the help I can get. So here is what I found out. Emacs uses an external spell checking program. ispell is the original option. aspell is newer and should be better. First install aspell Windows: Grab the application installer and a dictionary here: http://aspell.net/win32/ If you don’t […]

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  .emacs

  12.12.12 | Permalink | Comment?

  On Linux and Mac it is .emacs on Windows it is init.el These two commands make testing changes easier: eval-region and eval-buffer TODO: What exactly do these mean: require, autoload, add-hook, setq See for instance http://a-nickels-worth.blogspot.com/2007/11/effective-emacs.html and http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Autoload.html

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  Using Keil’s x51 tools from Emacs

  12.12.12 | Permalink | Comment?

  All my steps to be able to M-x compile 8051 projects from Emacs. Make sure make is in the path.  (The following are for Win 7 without admin rights) Computer->Properties->Advanced system settings->Environment Variables User variables: New/Edit… Add C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin; (of course you need MingW installed) If your Makefile is not in the same directory as your […]

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  Installing Packages

  12.11.12 | Permalink | Comment?

  A great deal of the power of Emacs derives from the thousands of packages that have been developed for it over the years. These can be hard to manage. Thankfully, emacs 24 bundled a package manager in with it. For a very good explanation of why a package manager is necessary, how to set it […]

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  Tabs

  12.10.12 | Permalink | Comment?

  I program a lot in Python, where white space really matters. My preference is a 4 character indent made of spaces. I am still trying to figure all this out, but here is what I have learned so far: (setq-default tab-width 4) in .emacs (or init.el as the case may be) will set the tab […]

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  One editor to rule them all

  12.08.12 | Permalink | Comment?

  I have used and abandoned more text editors in the last decade and a half than I can count. Most of them were great editors but none met all of my needs. XyWrite – way cool for its time, but not free and now defunct (or at least nearly so)  vim – I am still […]

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  Kazehakase package for Hardy

  01.12.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  I have been playing with Kazehakase, a very lightweight browser with some nifty features. However the version in the Ubuntu Hardy repositories has a serious bug: it crashes every time you try to open the Preferences dialog. This bug has been fixed upstream, but I couldn’t find a deb for Ubuntu with this fix. So […]

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  Bug fixes: Java Fonts & Dead Keypad

  11.07.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Recently my Ubuntu system at work started showing a couple of really annoying bugs: The line spacing in all Java applications was doubled. This meant that I could only get 1/2 as much text on the screen in JEdit. When numlock was off the keypad allowed me to use the arrow keys,  but when I […]

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  Getting organized

  08.09.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  My to do list has been getting out of hand. I have two research project, a summer internship, and general life stuff (cooking, laundry, etc.) and have been having trouble keeping track of it. So I decided I needed some help. In the past I have used Hiveminder and really liked it. However it has […]

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