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Turtle emergency!
Jun. 8th, 2007 09:10 am
Found this guy on the Minuteman in Lexington. Tried to figure out who to call for about 15 minutes without success, until he eventually started lumbering back off the path by himself. Hope he made it!
Jun. 8th, 2007
o frabjous emacs
Jun. 8th, 2007 03:53 pmEmacs has been my preferred computing text editor since I was about 15, when ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
npierce asked me to help her learn to use it on the Columbia TOPS-20 systems. I followed the Emacs built-in tutorial, drank the Kool-Aid and never looked back.
But in the last few years, I found myself using it less and less. Emacs just wasn't keeping up with advances in Unix desktop environments. It used a widget set that didn't mesh well with the new sleek, suave desktops. Using it under GNOME or KDE felt incredibly awkward, like walking around with too much starch in your shorts. Since about 2005 I have been using vim for most of my daily work, but always thinking fondly back to my Emacs and wondering if anyone would ever bring it into the modern age.
Now it seems that they have: http://peadrop.com/blog/2007/01/06/pretty-emacs/
Newer Emacs snapshots support the GTK widget set, which integrates it much better with GNOME than the older releases. The link above describes how to install it with XFT support as well, so you can use it all the same gorgeous antialiased fonts your desktop supports.
Emacs again! I scarcely believed it could be true.
npierce asked me to help her learn to use it on the Columbia TOPS-20 systems. I followed the Emacs built-in tutorial, drank the Kool-Aid and never looked back.But in the last few years, I found myself using it less and less. Emacs just wasn't keeping up with advances in Unix desktop environments. It used a widget set that didn't mesh well with the new sleek, suave desktops. Using it under GNOME or KDE felt incredibly awkward, like walking around with too much starch in your shorts. Since about 2005 I have been using vim for most of my daily work, but always thinking fondly back to my Emacs and wondering if anyone would ever bring it into the modern age.
Now it seems that they have: http://peadrop.com/blog/2007/01/06/pretty-emacs/
Newer Emacs snapshots support the GTK widget set, which integrates it much better with GNOME than the older releases. The link above describes how to install it with XFT support as well, so you can use it all the same gorgeous antialiased fonts your desktop supports.
Emacs again! I scarcely believed it could be true.