Dell217A weblog of how I set up my new Dell in 217 CNStarting to play with emacs 21.3- (Found June 24, 2008 ) First observations using the emacs on my Dell in 326 (the room formerly known as 217:-) It tried to load bbdb, but can't find the library. Not surprising, considering the library is at shareelisppackages-e21bbdb-2.32lispbbdb.elc . So we'll need to figure out where to put the libraries. In debugging this, I noticed that the usual way of evaluating random bits of elisp-- namely, putting the expression in the scratch buffer and hitting C-j, doesn't work. This makes it .http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/blogs/Dell217/2004/06/02#art044 Thu Oct 9 22:37:01 2003 Changed to ".blog"- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Switched blosxom to look for .blog files, and added (auto-execute ".blog$" 'html-mode) to my .emacs, so adding blog entries automatically pops up emacs in html mode.http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/blogs/Dell217/2003/10/09#art016 Fri Oct 10 07:52:39 2003 Directories, RSS configured- (Found June 24, 2008 ) The link to the RSS feed now seems right, but I don't read RSS. Can anybody confirm that it is doing the right thinghttp://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/blogs/Dell217/2003/10/10#art017 Fri Oct 10 11:47:01 2003 Integrating the X clipboard with windows- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Colin writes: I'm sorry if I wasn't clear about this Mitch, the startxwin.bat file does not start X with the -clipboard option. Here's what I do to get around this. Start up xwin with the following command xwin -multiwindow -clipboard and then I use the Secure Shell ssh client to connect to a remote host and have it set to tunnel X back to my computer. That seems to do the trick for me. You should find that the scroll button on your mouse also acts as the middle button for pasting in.http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/blogs/Dell217/2003/10/10#art018 Fri Oct 10 13:59:04 2003 Cut & Paste not happy- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Continuing to run C:cygwinusrX11R6binXWin.exe -multiwindow -clipboard Now I can't cut & paste either from windows to unix (emacs or xterm) or vice versa. I recall on my home machine, running Xwin32, that sometimes the clipboard would get tired and stop working. I recall that I had a technique to revive, but I've forgotten what it was.http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/blogs/Dell217/2003/10/10#art019 Mon Oct 13 10:37:03 2003 New blog for my Dell at home- (Found June 24, 2008 ) I took delivery on another Dell for my office at home. Looks like I will have trials and tribulations with this one, too. For starts, I can't get the cpu to display anything. So, for the benefit of my gazillions of readers out there, I'm keeping a blog for that one, too. This one, however, is not advertised on my home page. It's only for the cognoscenti :-)http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/blogs/Dell217/2003/10/13#art020 Tue Oct 14 13:04:13 2003 ShiftControl-Mouse Button in Emacs- (Found June 24, 2008 ) These seem not to be working properly. They pop up the menu, but it flashes on the screen briefly, and then disappears again. This is annoying primarily because I can't figure out how to change fonts in Emacs without using the mouse. Pop-up menus that are attached to mouse keys without modifiers (eg Mouse-3) seem to be fine. Also, CutPaste seems unhappy this morning; CS-Ins works, but yesterday I could do it more transparently. I suspect this is an ssh problem. I'm going to see if I can...http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/blogs/Dell217/2003/10/14#art021 Tue Oct 14 16:23:31 2003 Update on mouse modifiers- (Found June 24, 2008 ) This appears to be strictly an emacs problem, since I can do Ctl-mouse-3 to change fonts in xterm just fine.http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/blogs/Dell217/2003/10/14#art022 Tue Oct 14 16:27:35 2003 Local mirror of cygwin- (Found June 24, 2008 ) The cygwin installation on my laptop is screwed up, so I decided to reinstall it. But the pipe got broken about 10 minutes into the download. When I tried to restart, I got "cannot load setup.ini from archive.progeny.com" I recall this happening in the past. Can anybody recommend a reliable mirror site for cygwin Is there a local mirror (I don't see one on mirrors.ccs.neu.edu).http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/blogs/Dell217/2003/10/14#art023 xstartwin.bat -clipboard didn't work- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Still can't cut&paste between X and windows.http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/blogs/Dell217/2003/10/09#art015 |