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Emacs

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Emacs

el-get 2.2

We’ve spotted a little too late for our own taste a discrepancy in the source tree: a work in progress patch landed in git just before to release el-get stable. So …

Emacs

el-get 2.1

Current el-get status is stable, ready for daily use and packed with extra features that make life easier. There are some more things we could do, as always, but they …

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desktop-mode and readahead

I’m using Desktop Save Mode so that Emacs knows to open again all the buffers I’ve been using. That goes quite well with how often I start Emacs, that is once …

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welcome el-get scratch installer

A very good remark from some users: installing and managing el-get should be simpler. They wanted both an easy install of the thing, and a way to be able to manage it …

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el-get news

I’ve been receiving some requests for el-get, some of them even included a patch. So now there’s support for bzr, CSV and http-tar, augmenting the existing …

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Emacs is Twinkling here

So you have a rolodex like database in your Emacs, or you have this phone number in a mail and you want to call it. It happens you have VoIP setup and you’re using …

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Escreen integration

After having used elscreen for a long time, I’m now a very happy user of escreen, which feels much better integrated and allows to have one ring of recently visited …

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Follow-up on dim:mailrc-add-entry

The function didn’t allow for using more than one mailrc file, which isn’t a good idea, so I’ve just added that. Oh and for gnus integration what I need …

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Improving ~/.mailrc usage

So I’ve been adviced to use ~/.mailrc for keeping a basic address book in Emacs, for use within gnus for example. I had to resort to the manual to find out how to …

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Useful emacs trick

Watch Kevin Kelly’s Talk here, it’s about trying to predict what the Internet will look like 5 thousands days from now.