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Software Programming

Emacs Muse based publishing

As you might have noticed, this little blog of mine is not compromising much and entirely maintained from Emacs. Until today, I had to resort to term to upload my …

Projects

prefix 1.0.0

So there it is, at long last, the final 1.0.0 release of prefix! It’s on its way into the debian repository (targetting sid, in testing in 10 days) and available on …

Emacs

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 …

Emacs

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 …

Emacs

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 …

Emacs

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 …

Software Programming

Some emacs nifties

First, here’s a way to insert at current position the last message printed into the minibuffer… well not exactly, in *Messages* buffer in fact. I was tired …

Projects

prefix 1.0~rc2-1

I’ve been having problem with building both postgresql-8.3-prefix and postgresql-8.4-prefix debian packages from the same source package, and fixing the packaging …

PostgreSQL

PgCon 2009

I can’t really compare PgCon 2009 with previous years versions, last time I enjoyed the event it was in 2006, in Toronto. But still I found the experience to be a …