53 Articles tagged “Emacs”

Now you know what piece of software is used to publish this blog. I really like it, the major mode makes it a great experience to be using this tool, and the fact that you produce the HTML and rsync it all from within Emacs ( C-c C-p then C-c C-r with some easy elisp code) is a big advantage as far as I’m concerned. No need to resort to shell and Makefile.

One of the most important feedback I got about the presentation of pgstaging were the lack of pictures, something like a bird-view of how you operate it. Well, thanks to ditaa and Emacs picture-mode here it is: Hope you enjoy, it should not be necessary to comment much if I got to the point! Of course I commited the text source file to the Git repository. The only problem I ran into is that ditaa defaults to ouputing a quite big right margin containing only white pixels, and that didn’t fit well, visually, in this blog.

At pgday there was this form you could fill to give speakers some feedback about their talks. And that’s a really nice way as a speaker to know what to improve. And as Magnus was searching a nice looking chart facility in python and I spoke about matplotlib, it felt like having to publish something. Here is my try at some nice graphics. Well I’ll let you decide how nice the result is:

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 publications, though, as I’ve been too lazy to hack up the tools integration for simply doing a single rsync command line. That was one time to many: (defvar dim:muse-rsync-options "-avz" "rsync options") (defvar dim:muse-rsync-source "~/dev/muse/out" "local path from where to rsync, with no ending /") (defvar dim:muse-rsync-target "dim@tapoueh.

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 Twinkle to make your calls. Maybe you’ll then find this function useful: (defun twinkle-call-symbol-or-region () "Call the phone number at point (symbol seems good enough), or in region" (interactive) (shell-command-to-string (format "twinkle --cmd 'call %s'" (replace-regexp-in-string "[^0-9+]" "" (if (use-region-p) (buffer-substring (region-beginning) (region-end)) (thing-at-point 'symbol)))))) It happens that symbol is better than word here because some phone numbers begin with +.