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Comment on Deriving Muse Styles by Soon to be junk « A Forest of Words

Soon to be junk « A Forest of Words — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:57:43 +0000

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Comment on Deriving Muse Styles by Using Emacs and Muse to publish OCaml code « A Forest of Words

Using Emacs and Muse to publish OCaml code « A Forest of Words — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:56:10 +0000

[...] of the following Emacs configuration is derived from this blog [...]

Comment on longlines-mode by filologen

filologen — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:34:07 +0000

I also started using visual-line-mode instead of longlines, but I do miss the wrapping of a paragraph in realtime.

Another feature I am missing is:
‘(longlines-wrap-follows-window-size t)

Is there any way to make visual-line-mode do these two things?

Comment on About by Coder82

Coder82 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:00:37 +0000

A young universe is challenged by the distant starlight problem, which presents the dilemma of how light from objects millions or billions of light years away could be observed in a young universe. ,

Comment on About by Loy92

Loy92 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:06:14 +0000

Thanks to blogging and online social networking, they are quick to share their knowledge and opinions with one another. ,

Comment on Strawberry Perl and POE by Mike Robinson

Mike Robinson — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:16:10 +0000

I am trying to install “HTTP::Server::Brick” and it is stopping with the error … “Your vendor has not defined POSIX macro SIGHUP.”

I’m just beginning to research the issue of signal-definitions in Strawberry. Any links helpful.

Comment on Sorting Records With Emacs by Jared

Jared — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:33:33 +0000

@Aaron – I think that sort-numeric-fields counts fields based on whitespace, therefore for fixed width fields with a variable number of words it won’t work (e.g. my name field will sometimes have two surnames). Good tip for other data though.

@Sue – sort-subr is even more flexible isn’t it? Pathological example: what if you wanted to sort on the deepest set of brackets?

XXX ((1)) (2)

@Eisen – portability and flexibility. sort doesn’t exist by default on Windows and can’t handle all my sorting needs in any case.

Comment on Sorting Records With Emacs by Eisen

Eisen — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:50:04 +0000

Why not use ’sort’ via shell-command-on-region?

Comment on Strawberry Perl and POE by ghfghhdf

ghfghhdf — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:01:15 +0000

Ah, and a final note. In your examples where you include a certain number of seconds in alarm() and sleep() calls, it would be helpful if you could include the current time in the debug messages print()ed.

Otherwise it can sometimes be difficult to see from the transcript whether the alarms worked as they should or not.

Comment on Strawberry Perl and POE by ghfghhdf

ghfghhdf — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:35:21 +0000

Experimenting a bit more, I found that things start working in some situations if a call to the core function can_read() in IO::Select is removed.

It seems to me that there is a bug in Perl that causes alarms to be silently cancelled if you do a can_read().

Nasty shit. Takes days to debug. Don’t use signals in Perl.